From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Aug 27 23:57:47 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 2FB2CB78305 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:57:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [IPv6:2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.he.net", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA - G4" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C4F28A4 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:57:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from ::ffff:99.100.19.101 ([99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:57:45 -0700 Subject: Re: Non working NIC To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> From: David Christensen X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:57:45 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8998531B-1890-461B-B385-72498BC6A92E@mail.sermon-archive.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:57:47 -0000 On 08/27/2016 01:41 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> On 26 August 2016, at 21:16, David Christensen wrote: >> >> 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. 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. 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. David