On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Aaron Mason wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM,  <shwegime@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
>

ok, you've convinced me, I'll give it a try on a usb thumb for a start.
tks