I've been having some issues with my 6501 and linux. The kernel from http://wiki.soekris.info/Kernel_2.6.32_from_source_on_Debian works fairly well, but HyperThreading is disabled, and I seem to be having some RX issues (the 6501 can't rx faster than 280Mbps from any machine, while all other machines can easily hit 850-950Mbps rx and tx).
Before that kernel, I was using the stock debian 3.2 kernel, but there was some funny business going on, with odd cpu use noted by htop, and performance was rather poor. I then tried using the config from the link above to compile a custom kernel based on 3.5.2, but it has similar issues as the stock 3.2 debian kernel. I'm pretty certain I messed up the config somehow, but this isn't the first time I've done a custom kernel (I've done it many many times for x86 machines) so I'm not sure exactly what I did mess up. Does anyone have a good idea of how to make a proper kernel for the 6501? Now, it may not be the kernel at all, it's just a hunch I have since different kernels so far have reacted differently. If anyone can think of something else that would cause these issues, I'd love to know what they are. Thanks. -- Thomas Fjellstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
