Re: Soekris net4501 - repetitive reboots

[Dan Harnett <danh@wzrd.com>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:21:23PM +0100, Saad Kadhi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:56:24PM +0100, Saad Kadhi wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:23:21PM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:
> > > I don't really see that this would rule out the "power supply theory",
> > > since I suppose it would be reasonable to suspect that the scp operation
> > > would make the machine consume more power, possibly causing it to
> > > malfunction if the power supply is insufficient.
> > agreed. it doesn't rule it out. nick@ also has the same arguments in a
> > private mail. thanks!
> > 
> > I will test another power supply as soon as I can and report back.
> your suggestions solved the problem partly. I had a 800mA power supply.
> replaced it with a 1.2A one. now the soekris doesn't reboot anymore.
> however, scp still tops at 1.4MBs and the soekris is almost unresponsive
> on the console. any ideas?

I also have a net4501 and a mini-PCI wireless card from netgate.com.
scp (and rsync) caused the net4501 to become completely unresponsive
when transferring files from the wireless segment to the wired segment.
>From what I have determined, the mini-PCI card was failing miserably
when using 104-bit WEP (firmware-based) and became unresponsive.  Using
40-bit WEP (or none) everything would work just fine.