Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:49:03 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to repair networking Message-ID: <20110620184903.98007407.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106201152310.12431@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106201152310.12431@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:00:13 -0400 (EDT), doug wrote: > I was running 8.2 stable and kde3.5. Originally I want to install chrome. I > trying to update the many interlocking components I eventually got to the point > where I thought I would just start again so I removed all ports. > > At this point I lost networking, neither DHCP or manually configuring an IP > address worked so I put my data on a USB drive and really started over. My > question is would rebuilding the world likely have worked? If what else should I > have tried before jumping off the deep end? Thanks for any thoughts It should _not_ happen that removing installed ports prevents you from gaining essential networking functionality, such as obtaining data per DHCP. If you have installed the sources (/usr/src subtree), and the required building tools are working, try to rebuild world and install it as described in /usr/src/Makefile's comment section. If your world _matches_ the kernel installed, you can omit that step. In case it does _not_, you'll have to rebuild both world and kernel. Afterwards, you should be able to reinstall all needed ports and then restore the data to the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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