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. -- CS
