Re: net6501: doesn't start if not first unplugged for 8 minutes

>as many of you I got my dead one here. Now I look foward to a
>new brand, and look for same kind of issues on the new APU2 from
>PcEngines. Does anyone knows if there is a mailing list, just as this,
>for their products?

There is an online forum (which I don't prefer):

	http://pcengines.info/forums/

>Sad to get to this point. I kinda imagine that something may had
>happened to Soren himself. Some long time ago he was here and even
>answered to one guy who had power supply issues. He was trying to prove
>that his board died from bad board power supply desing. Nevermore Soren
>wrote here. A shame for soekris, as my 5501-70 is still here, now aging
>and looking for a substitute. I hope it won't die as well.

From everything I've seen, the 5501s are rock solid; I replaced mine
with an APU2 because I wanted faster NICs.  As for something happening
to Soren ... well, I have no inside knowledge about that.  I couldn't
help noticing that he stopped posting to the mailing lists in the
2011-2012 timeframe, right when the first batch of 6501s started dying
and people started mentioning it on here (if you look you can see him
engage the first customers who had their 6501s die).  I'll leave it to
others to draw their own conclusions.

--Ken