On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, <shweg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for replying. > As you can see from the first line of my post, I'm running -release, and not > -current, and I don't plan to run -current since I'm very happy with an > upgrade twice a year for the moment. > Actually, since the link you provided was from end october, I tried > installing it but the nic does not come up at all. > On my machine I had previously installed iwn-firmware-5.1, now I have > iwn-firmware-5.1p0, but the situation is exactly as per my first post. > > So, why does 'ping' hang there and does not give 'packet loss' error, as it > did until two days ago? > >
If this machine isn't production, then no harm could come from trying a snapshot. It would give the developers a much better idea as to where you system's at. Use a USB thumb drive if you're that worried about trashing your data. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
