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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers
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On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 09:39 -0500, Walter Venable wrote:
> FreeBSD 7.1 upgrade broke my network access, machine is totally
> offline (powered-on and I can play inside it at the terminal, but
> absolutely 0 network access):
> This happened AFTER make kernel but BEFORE make installworld.  I think
> this implies it's a kernel driver issue.
> 
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1323 (this is an ongoing
> thread on the issue, the rl driver has also been reported broken).

What version of FreeBSD did you upgrade from?

Gavin