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Subject: Re: Non working NIC
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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.