I'm sorry for creating some confusion. My original email was about the MacbookAir5,1 external USB ports not working on 5.6-release, when they worked fine under 5.5-stable, so the subject is descriptive, at least as the discussion started.
Subsequently I emailed to say that I have also tried a snapshot and found the USB ports work using the snapshot, but unreliably. *That* is why I mentioned the 2014-11-14 snapshot--to explain which snapshot I was encountering some problems. The problems with the snapshot are different than the problems with 5.6--on 5.6 the USB ports don't seem to function at all, whereas under the 2014-11-14 they work, but not reliably. Excerpts from Theo de Raadt's message of 2014-11-19 14:38:31 -0800: > > Sorry about that Martin, I'll try to be more helpful by providing more > > details. The snapshot I tried and found to be unreliable was amd64 > > bsd.mp 2014-11-14. > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > Which is not 5.6, as your subject says. > > It is -current, of a certain date. > > Please be more careful with the message.