5.3-stable doesn't ifconfig at startup

[Kenneth W Cochran]

>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:32:44 +0200
>From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com>
>To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at theworld.com>
>Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: 5.3-stable doesn't ifconfig at startup
>
>On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:48:27 -0500 (EST)
>Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at TheWorld.com> wrote:
>
>> >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:27:01 +0200
>> >From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com>
>> >To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at theworld.com>
>> >Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>> >Subject: Re: 5.3-stable doesn't ifconfig at startup
>> >
>> >On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:00:39 -0500 (EST)
>> >Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at theworld.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello -stable:
>> >>
>> >> Any idea(s) why (my) 5.3-stable (as of 9 February) isn't
>> >> configuring the network interface or setting up the default route?
>> >>
>> >> I installed 5.3-release from CD and things worked fine.
>> >> Then I updated the system sources (via cvsup) to RELENG_5 and
>> >> went through {build,install}world/mergemaster/reboot as outlined
>
> [ .. ]
>
>> >mergemaster pilot error ?
>> >If you didn't changed something in them I'd suggest wiping /etc/rc.d/*
>> >and /etc/defaults/* and do a mergermaster -i
>>
>> First thing I thought of; both "mergemaster -p" and
>> "mergemaster" without arguments are fine; all its "targets"
>> updated accordingly.
>
>But set by hand it works ?
>I've did the same thing 3 weeks ago and rebuild the machine 3 times w/o problems
>
>--
>IOnut
>Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"

Yes, setting by hand works, e.g. ifconfig & route add default ...
Netcard is Intel fxp type.  So far, UTSL is rather, umm, vague...

-kc