Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:42:54 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10: no interfaces Message-ID: <20151012124254.a2b39c50.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <0D1A75F9-ADD6-4FB8-8921-5C2196645D1C@gmail.com> References: <0D1A75F9-ADD6-4FB8-8921-5C2196645D1C@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 23:10:09 -0700, Paul Beard wrote: > I just built 10.2 from source, running in a VM, as I have been doing > with 8.x for a couple of years. The VM is a clone of the 8.4 environment. Do you have any nonstandard kernel options? > For some reason, no interfaces are created at boot time, no loopback > or other interfaces. As you might guess, that limits the utility of a > FreeBSD install a bit. Quite. :-) Network interfaces will only appear if the VM support has been installed _and_ the VM environment has defined virtual network interfaces (compatible with mentioned support). However, a loopback device should allear withouth any configuration. Depending on what VM you're using, "vmware-tools" might be needed. > Here’s a screen shot of what I can see: There is no screenshot. The list only allows text attachments. But you can link to a web resource. > Nothing in messages. The interface is seen in dmesg and seems to be loaded. What's the output of "ifconfig -a"? > What could be the trouble? Interfaces loaded, but not configured? CHeck the relevant sections of /etc/rc.conf. The transition from FreeBSD 8 to FreeBSD 10 might show some changes... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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