A couple things I find somewhat amusing:
- I write a detailed list of my future plans and get no commentary or feedback (which is fine), but then I write about the weather and generate a significant, interesting discussion.
- I finally upgraded to FreeBSD 5.3 last night (after compiling it earlier this week). When my system came back up, I was getting pings between my box and my cable modem (which are directly connected with a cable) of greater than 50 seconds. I think that it would have been even longer if I kept on trying the pinging. I was getting “watchdog timeout” errors on my console too. Apparently, there was some sort of device conflict or something with my network card. (I added
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"to the end of my /boot/device.hints to fix it, in case anyone else is having similar problems.)
Oh, Pete, by the way, disable ACPI when you try to get FreeBSD upgraded.
I had trouble with my box before I disabled ACPI.
Thanks. :)
I was just amused by the fact that it was *working*, but with many-tens-of-seconds ping times. If it wasn’t working at all, then I think it might have been easier to track down. This was just… weird. You don’t expect that between nodes in the same room directly connected by a network cable.