Earlier I wrote about a problem with libpcap on OS X. This is the call in the code that breaks the wireless connection.
/* ask pcap to find a valid device for use to sniff on */ dev = pcap_lookupdev(errbuf);
but replace it with this (en1 is my wireless interface)
dev="en1";
and then use dev in other libpcap functions and it works fine.
One of the tv cards in my mythtv backend requires the driver to load firmware at boot time. The driver for this card was crashing repeatedly so I have been keeping an eye out for updates. The firmware received an upgrade a few months ago but it was still crashing and it was weeks before I realized that the old firmware was still being loaded. It turns out that you have to actually remove the power from the system before it will reload the firmware. A reboot is not sufficient. This really needs to be in BIG letters somewhere on the linuxtv site.
Anyway I now have a whole month of uptime on the backend. This is only the second time I have had the system so stable in the 3-4 years I have been running mythtv.