Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:41:17 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <doug@mail.sermon-archive.info> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non working NIC Message-ID: <8998531B-1890-461B-B385-72498BC6A92E@mail.sermon-archive.info> In-Reply-To: <0a3091e5-ae79-cd75-93e9-34d962eddfb7@holgerdanske.com> References: <224DCDD3-162F-4E67-8C1D-9332C85FC032@mail.sermon-archive.info> <C5192B10-AD4E-4966-88EA-486AE1DA9116@mail.sermon-archive.info> <6A68E1F3-95CC-42AE-94B4-02B153E4E83F@mail.sermon-archive.info> <20160818010513.0c95f8df.freebsd@edvax.de> <F582ED5D-5BB4-4FE6-B4FA-32BB2F9EBFC8@mail.sermon-archive.info> <20160818015848.d9fd126e.freebsd@edvax.de> <174B1185-C1FF-4699-81B6-861E97A30181@mail.sermon-archive.info> <21C5CB57-F898-48DB-B3C4-24D4D57DB5FF@mail.sermon-archive.info> <EE5620EF-2AA9-4F66-9923-94DCCA7F354C@mail.sermon-archive.info> <0a3091e5-ae79-cd75-93e9-34d962eddfb7@holgerdanske.com>
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> On 26 August 2016, at 21:16, David Christensen = <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: >=20 > On 08/26/2016 01:52 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: >> ... I don't see a way to upgrade without a working network. This is = a backup machine that backs up numerous others so the data on there is = huge and is not easily replaced. I don't have another drive large = enough to hold it. ... bsdinstall will wipe out the drive. So, any = ideas how to do the upgrade? I am out of ideas at the moment. >=20 > I came in late on this thread. It sounds like your backup machine has > one HDD with OS, applications, and data? >=20 >=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? 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.
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