From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 18:13:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F252F16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:13:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asmtp01.eresmas.com (asmtp05.eresmas.com [62.81.235.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3131243D39 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:13:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ea1abz@wanadoo.es) Received: from [192.168.108.57] (helo=mx01.eresmas.com) by asmtp01.eresmas.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CwlU2-00046s-NV; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:13:38 +0100 Received: from [80.103.16.118] (helo=[80.103.16.118]) by mx01.eresmas.com with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CwlU2-0007Fe-7m; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:13:39 +0100 Message-ID: <42026AD1.4080502@wanadoo.es> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:17:53 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John References: <420229F3.50409@gmail.com> <20050203134805.GD8804@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <42023391.7010003@gmail.com> <20050203144107.GA28673@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20050203084457.A30938@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050203084457.A30938@starfire.mn.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd firewall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:13:42 -0000 John wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:41:07AM -0500, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > >>On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:22:09AM -0500, Aperez wrote: >> >>>Yes, I am sorry I made a mistake. I meant 64 MB >>> >>>Any idea what is the problem? >> >>It's possible that it's faulty hardware. A system that old could very >>well have its share of problems. You may try replacing the RAM, >>removing cards--things like that to try to track down if it's a single >>piece of equipment that's causing it to fault. > > > For whatever it's worth, I had the same problem on a Pentium I system, > but I ended up retiring it before I tracked it down. > > We may have an issue with FreeBSD 5.3 on older systems. > > Might I suggest FreeBSD 4-STABLE for this system? Hello. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 successfully on an old pentium 75MHz with 32 MB RAM. 16MB RAM did not work. So I would check your memory for faulty chips. Try with 32MB and see what happens. Good luck. Ramiro.