FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

[Walter Venable]

Booting kernel.old, which is 7.0-RELEASE-p7 completely alleviates all
problems.  I believe this roundly confirms that this is a bug in the
7.1-RELEASE re kernel drivers.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Walter Venable <walt at relnor.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD 7.1 upgrade broke my network access, machine is totally
> offline (powered-on and I can play inside it at the terminal, but
> absolutely 0 network access):
> This happened AFTER make kernel but BEFORE make installworld.  I think
> this implies it's a kernel driver issue.
>
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1323 (this is an ongoing
> thread on the issue, the rl driver has also been reported broken).
>