From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Aug 28 07:29:55 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C12B78F15 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 07:29:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@mail.sermon-archive.info) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [108.92.93.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E2ADE8C for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 07:29:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@mail.sermon-archive.info) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (unknown [71.177.216.148]) by zoom.lafn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C23434AA19; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Subject: Re: Non working NIC From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:29:46 -0700 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <224DCDD3-162F-4E67-8C1D-9332C85FC032@mail.sermon-archive.info> <6A68E1F3-95CC-42AE-94B4-02B153E4E83F@mail.sermon-archive.info> <20160818010513.0c95f8df.freebsd@edvax.de> <20160818015848.d9fd126e.freebsd@edvax.de> <174B1185-C1FF-4699-81B6-861E97A30181@mail.sermon-archive.info> <21C5CB57-F898-48DB-B3C4-24D4D57DB5FF@mail.sermon-archive.info> <0a3091e5-ae79-cd75-93e9-34d962eddfb7@holgerdanske.com> <8998531B-1890-461B-B385-72498BC6A92E@mail.sermon-archive.info> To: David Christensen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 07:29:55 -0000 > On 27 August 2016, at 16:57, David Christensen = wrote: >=20 > On 08/27/2016 01:41 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: >>=20 >>> On 26 August 2016, at 21:16, David Christensen = wrote: >>>=20 >>> How about unplug your HDD, get a 16 GB SSD, do a fresh install of >>> whatever OS you want, and then reconnect the HDD as a data drive? >>=20 >> That would definitely work. However, I am not interested in dumping = money into this as its not my machine. I did some reading on = freebsd-update and there is a rollback option. I tried it. It works. I = got back to a working 9.1 system that has working NICs. I then did an = upgrade to 9.3 which continued to work. Then I did an upgrade to = 11.0-RC2. Once again, no network interfaces. There is something amiss = with the i386 networking. I am going to rollback again so that I can = try the next release unless someone has some ideas on how to debug this = situation. >=20 > 1. Time is money. If one rollback, two upgrades, and troubleshooting > as yet to be determined costs less than $20, your labor rate is too = low. I've never seen that price before. >=20 > 2. Having everything on one drive is going to complicate taking an > image of the OS, applications, and configuration settings for disaster > recovery purposes and complicate replicating the data for redundancy > purposes. This is the disaster recovery site machine. And, unfortunately I do not = believe a new drive with 11.0-x will not work either. The i386 = architecture seems to have a problem on 11.0 at this time. I can try a = separate drive, but getting that setup is not real easy.