Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:29:46 -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: <B7F61E66-9DA6-4FF2-A7A0-99BAD92393FC@mail.sermon-archive.info> In-Reply-To: <dff79214-314f-98b5-4d89-119a10d63722@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> <8998531B-1890-461B-B385-72498BC6A92E@mail.sermon-archive.info> <dff79214-314f-98b5-4d89-119a10d63722@holgerdanske.com>
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> On 27 August 2016, at 16:57, David Christensen = <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: >=20 > On 08/27/2016 01:41 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: >>=20 >>> On 26 August 2016, at 21:16, David Christensen = <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: >>>=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? >>=20 >> 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. >=20 > 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. I've never seen that price before. >=20 > 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. This is the disaster recovery site machine. And, unfortunately I do not = believe a new drive with 11.0-x will not work either. The i386 = architecture seems to have a problem on 11.0 at this time. I can try a = separate drive, but getting that setup is not real easy.
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