Again, this is primarily a note-to-self. My normal internet connection is not always that stable, so I have to fallback to alternatives when things are suboptimal (massive packet loss up to 100%).
Before, I could use my Sony Ericsson C902 for tethering. With Bluetooth and a lot of PPP magic I barely understand, I was able to call my phone's modem and access the internet.
Running a FreeBSD 6.x guest on an ESX server may cause the following lines on the console:
This renders the system pretty unusable. The shape of the lnc driver is not that good (hence it has been deprecated from FreeBSD 7 and replaced by the le driver). Fortunately, VMWare ESX offers another network interface which works better in combination with FreeBSD. To switch network interface, follow these steps:
- Open the VMWare Infrastructure Client.
- Shut down the FreeBSD guest.
The network interface used by FreeBSD when running inside VirtualBox is usually pcn0 and worked fine up to FreeBSD 6.2 (using NAT). However, the card did not seem to be working that great in FreeBSD 7.0. No IP address was being assigned and I failed to manage how to obtain one nevertheless.
I must say I'm impressed with Debian so far. It still has not convinced me to drop Gentoo and start using Debian, Gentoo is simply too cool for that.
With both distro's it's always a bit iggy what will happen if you do emerge world or apt-get upgrade respectively. Most of the times things go well and you have an up-to-date system. Sometimes things go wrong.
