Diagnosing periodic reboot?

2005-06-30 Thread David Kurtz
My hobby FreeBSD box has started to reboot at semi-regular intervals, and I can't figure out why. There seems to be no warning, no message at the console and no indication of (or, probably, I don't recognize) the problem at reboot. This happened a few months ago, and for some reason I

How to recover from setting boot_single=?

2004-10-15 Thread David Kurtz
Short story: I placed a single line, boot_single= into the previously empty file /boot/loader.conf and now my machine boots with an extremely limited read-only volume. How do I get my old boot behavior back? Long story: I was muddling through updating the kernel and world for the first time,

Wireless NIC for 5.0-release + Shuttle sb51g?

2003-04-03 Thread David Kurtz
Can anyone recommend a PCI NIC for 802.11b that will work with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE and a Shuttle sb51g? I'm a relative newbie to FreeBSD and unix sysadmin stuff in general, so if there are caveats and pay attention to thises I should be aware of, I'd be grateful for the help.