On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Lars Nooden wrote: > I've been trying to move from 5.4 to 5.6 on an old machine. Neither > 5.6-release from the CD nor 5.6-current from the recent snapshots seem > to be able to use the Ethernet device. During power up, the link status > light is on, but then as the kernel loads it goes out and stays out.
Just to clarify, these have been fresh installs of 5.6-release and 5.6-current. Both bsd.rd and bsd seem not to find the lii interface. 5.5-release behaves almost the same way, though the link status light stays on until I try to use dhclient on lii0, both in bsd and bsd.rd. Regards, /Lars