I'm noticing when checking out the sourceforge freebios cvs, it will hang on the last file. (fails to close the connect?)
I've also noticed that cvs check-out has been really slow, so I decided to check-out the cvs snapshot tarball from the download page: http://www.linuxbios.org/developer/download/index.html
The posted url: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/freebios-cvsroot.tar.gz
The working url: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/freebios-cvsroot.tar.bz2
(notice that suffix differences ".gz" & ".bz")