On Saturday 03 February 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Sat 03 Feb 2007 16:22:17 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> Hardware error?
Quite often these really odd intermittent 'happenings' are caused by 
interference coming down the mains. Is it possible that an elderly fridge or 
freezer, which could be next-door, is to blame? 

Is there any difference in the frequency at which the the problem appears 
between working and non-working times?

> Otherwise, perhaps kernel bug, or a BIOS/BSD problem. I have recently
> installed pfsense on another mobo and it all worked fine, except no
> packet would ever go over any network card, although the interfaces
> appeared to be configured properly. All worked when I disabled ACPI in
> the BIOS.
>
> I don't think hardware support in BSD is anywhere near as good as in
> Linux.
Varies. Linux has played catch-up as catch-up can with some wireless cards.

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