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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:57:03 -0600
From:      John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net>
To:        Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: No network interfaces with 10.1-RC2 kernel and 9.2 userland
Message-ID:  <18F7164A-31D8-483E-B403-5142DAB20CE4@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <20141015165409.GZ2153@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <20141013165244.GA61249@hub.FreeBSD.org> <543E993B.5050406@vangyzen.net> <20141015163619.GR36695@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20141015165409.GZ2153@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Oct 15, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 04:36:19PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:56:43AM -0400, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
>>> I used freebsd-update to update a 9.2-RELEASE-p10 i386 system to
>>> 10.1-RC2.  After installing the kernel and rebooting, still using =
the
>>> 9.2 userland, ifconfig showed no interfaces.  Is this expected?  Do =
I
>>> need to bounce through 9.3 or 10.0 first?
>>>=20
>>=20
>> What interfaces should be there?
>>=20
>> Please provide the contents of /var/run/dmesg.boot.
>=20
> The interfaces used to manage networking (i.e. the kernel calls =
utilized
> by ifconfig(8), route(8) and others) are not kept stable between =
stable
> branches.  Usually, the compatibility is broken.
>=20
> Simply put, you cannot use configuration utilities from stable/9 on
> stable/10 kernel.  This is expected.
>=20
> You did not followed the instruction in UPDATING.

Oh, I missed the bit about the old userland. Yes, that is expected. You =
need to run "freebsd-update install" one or more times to install the =
new userland and remove old libraries (once you've updated your =
ports/packages).




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