Yes... even a basic 1st article check would have caught this.  Unless=20
the mfgr would do it correctly for the 1st one or 100 and then switched=20
parts, which would be clearly fraud.

I would never ever ever do mfgr like this without 1st article checks=20
even at the place in San Jose I've used for years.

A breathtaking what were they thinking fail on Rasp Pi's part.
J

RussellMc wrote:
> I was just about to post on the same topic as Colin as I just found
> comment on it elsewhere.
>
> What I read was: (from here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781)
> (Ah, almost identical ref to Colin's)
>
>>
> It=92s inevitable, isn=92t it =96 you=92re freewheeling along perfectly
> happily and then you get a puncture.
> As you=92ll have noticed, there=92s been a bit of a delay in shipping the
> first batch of Raspberry Pis out to people. This is because of a
> hardware parts substitution that was made in the factory by accident:
> specifically, where we=92d specified jacks with integrated magnetics in
> the BOM and schematics, the factory soldered in non-magnetic jacks. No
> magnetics means no network connection. We=92ve known about this for four
> days now, but we haven=92t been able to tell you about it because it
> meant we had to do some further tests to make sure that nothing else
> was affected.
> />
>
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