Non working NIC

[Doug Hardie]

> On 17 August 2016, at 16:05, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:56:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> Added a new NIC (rl0).  Removed any reference to msk0 in rc.conf. 
>> Set rl0 for DHCP.  Same result, but some additional messages:
>> 
>> Starting Network: mske0
>> Starting Network: rl0
>> rl0: link state changed to up
>> Starting Network: lo0
>> Starting dhclient
>> rl0: not found
>> exiting
>> 
>> I am out of ideas here.  How can I figure out what is going on and correct it?
> 
> This almost looks like a problem with the contents of rc.conf.
> Can you show all the relevant lines?

ifconfig rl0="DHCP"

> 
> Can you manually run "dhclient rl0" at any stage?

rl0: not found
exiting

> 
> What does "ifconfig -a" show?

: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
ifconfig: ioctl(SIOCGIFINFO_IN6): Device not configured

> 
> It would be strange for the device to disappear between the
> message "rl0: link state changed to up" and the dhclient call...
> 
> 
> 
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