Troubleshooting

I wanted to get an old Nikon Coolscan 8000 film scanner talking to my Proxmox cluster. The scanner is FireWire 800 only, so the plan was an Apple USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 adapter chained into a Thunderbolt to FireWire 800 adapter, both official Apple parts. Simple enough on paper. It took an entire evening and a trip through a motherboard manual to figure out why nothing was showing up. Step One: Which Host Even Has Thunderbolt The cluster is three nodes, pve01 through pve03, all Ryzen 9 5900X boxes. Before chasing the adapter I checked lsusb on all three: ...

My shed AP had been intermittently dropping off the Unifi controller for weeks. It surfaced during a controller migration when push notifications started firing: “device disconnected for 21 minutes, reconnected.” The other AP and switches were fine. Just the shed. The Setup The shed is about 0.1 miles from the house. A pair of NanoStation Loco M2 devices form a point-to-point wireless bridge between the two buildings. A UAP-AC-Lite hangs off the shed-side bridge to provide WiFi coverage out there. ...