For every person who is reporting trouble, there are probably 10 or 1000 who remain silent because they have no problem.
Johan Huldtgren wrote: > FWIW, I have had issues with my net5501 running OpenBSD, but only > when I've used a wireless card in it. If I don't use the wireless card > the box is rock solid, if I use the card the box will lock up hard > (have to pull power). This has been reported by quite a few people > on various OpenBSD mailing lists[1], and as such I've always considered > it an OpenBSD issue. Very similar setup: net5501-60, PATA disk in small case, wireless card (Atheros instead of Ralink). Extra hole for fan in the case, but fan not used. The only crashes / reboots / hangs happened when my Soekris power supply was slowly dying, and were fixed by using an old IBM laptop supply. Clearly OpenBSD has issues (although fewer than any other OS i know of), in particular when using it as an 802.11 access point, or the file system not handling unusually large block sizes on huge external disks, or with Dallas 1-wire sensors. But at least for me the Soekris hardware was rock-solid. This actually causes a problem: the Soekris is too good, and gets you addicted. For the upcoming major upgrade, I want to stay with Soekris, and use a 6501. But a VGA port would be nice, an extra SATA port would make migrating disks easier, and more USB ports would reduce wiring hassles with external hubs. But I'll trade a lot of "nice-to-have" for a solid and stable platform. Similarly, I would like to continue with OpenBSD, but the lack of 802.11 client power management support makes that problematic. Difficult choices. -- Ralph Becker-Szendy 408-395-1435 ra...@lr.los-gatos.ca.us 735 Sunset Ridge Road; Los Gatos, CA 95033 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
