Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-04-07, russell wrote: > > Speaking of which, I would love to test patches for the ath 5424, be > awesome if I could use the internal radio.. > sure, go ahead. see the tech@ list archives for mail from Luis Henriques.

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-07 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:18 -0600, "Daniel Melameth" wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Stuart Henderson > wrote: > > The newest ones that I've had personal experience of being problem- > > free in AP mode are the old PRISM cards (when running suitable firmware > > on them) and one specific m

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > The newest ones that I've had personal experience of being problem- > free in AP mode are the old PRISM cards (when running suitable firmware > on them) and one specific model of ath(4) (the one IBM used to use in > some Thinkpads)... The

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-04-07, corey clingo wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, you wrote: >>> Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions on how to proceed in >>> troubleshooting this. >> >> I would try another OS with as different a driver as possible >> (e.g.

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-07 Thread russell
>I am curious, though, what brands of wifi cards OpenBSD folks use for >APs. From when I was investigating this a year or so ago the ral >cards (per the man pages) were about the only ones without some sort >of caveat in AP mode. yep, ral(4) works quite well for me ifconfig ral0 ral0: flags=884

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-06 Thread corey clingo
Some more info: 1. I checked the PSU with it plugged into a 5-ohm dummy load, and into the Soekris. With the dummy load, the voltage fell to 11.5 volts -- pretty crappy regulation, but still well within the Soekris' specs. The dummy load is drawing over 2A at that voltage. In the Soekris, the PS

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-06 Thread corey clingo
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, you wrote: >> Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions on how to proceed in >> troubleshooting this. > > I would try another OS with as different a driver as possible > (e.g. probably Linux). > > True, but if I put tha

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-03 Thread corey clingo
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM, FRLinux wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Corey wrote: >> I saw them, yes. Soekris Engineering says the net5501 itself draws 20W max. >> My power supply is rated for 40W. I doubt that little miniPCI card draws >> 20 watts. > > Yes, but how many amps? > >

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-02 Thread Matt Bettinger
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:06 PM, FRLinux wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Corey wrote: >> I saw them, yes. Soekris Engineering says the net5501 itself draws 20W > max. >> My power supply is rated for 40W. I doubt that little miniPCI card draws >> 20 watts. > > Yes, but how many amps? >

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-02 Thread FRLinux
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Corey wrote: > I saw them, yes. Soekris Engineering says the net5501 itself draws 20W max. > My power supply is rated for 40W. I doubt that little miniPCI card draws > 20 watts. Yes, but how many amps? Steph

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-01 Thread Corey
On 04/01/2010 04:43 PM, FRLinux wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:34 AM, corey clingo wrote: Reposting this, as I posted Friday evening when fewer people were probably reading and haven't heard anything. If that's not the reason, then sorry for the noise. Hello, have you looked at th

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-01 Thread FRLinux
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:34 AM, corey clingo wrote: > Reposting this, as I posted Friday evening when fewer people were > probably reading and haven't heard anything. If that's not the > reason, then sorry for the noise. Hello, have you looked at the ML posts? Which power supply are you running

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-03-30 Thread corey clingo
Reposting this, as I posted Friday evening when fewer people were probably reading and haven't heard anything. If that's not the reason, then sorry for the noise. -- Forwarded message -- From: Corey Date: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:23 PM Subject: Soekris net5501 locks up w

Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-03-26 Thread Corey
I'm having trouble with my Soekris net5501 home router (and now wifi access point) locking up. Prior to installing the wifi I had it running various snapshots for about 6 months, no problem. (My wifi at that time was a separate Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato.) I had wanted to toy with integr