Unknown network interface

[Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions]

I upgraded an old server from 9.3-RELEASE to 10.3-RELEASE and the
network card is not recognized. I went into bsdconfig Network Interfaces
and it shows 'unknown network interface type'. However, the card model
is D-Link DFE-530TX+ and listed on the supported hardware list. Is there
something I can do to get the card working? I also have a Trendnet
TEG-PCITXRL gives me the same thing.

-- Robert

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[Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions]

Doug Hardie wrote:
> I encountered the same problem and found no solution other than to go directly to 11.0. Then my NIC worked again. You might try that using a memstick image first. I tried a number of them before finding the solution.

>
>
>> On 29 December 2016, at 11:31, Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions<freebsd-...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> I upgraded an old server from 9.3-RELEASE to 10.3-RELEASE and the network card is not recognized. I went into bsdconfig Network Interfaces and it shows 'unknown network interface type'. However, the card model is D-Link DFE-530TX+ and listed on the supported hardware list. Is there something I can do to get the card working? I also have a Trendnet TEG-PCITXRL gives me the same thing.
>>
>> -- Robert
>>

Thanks Doug. I've never upgraded using a memstick or iso, always used
freebsd-update. Can anyone suggest or point me to some instruction for
upgrading when I boot from an 11.0 iso cd rom?

[Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions]

Doug Hardie wrote:
> The handbook has the details on that. You pretty much have to do a reinstall though. I don't know of a way to bypass the newfs on the drive. However, I would recommend using it in live mode rather than doing an installation. That gives you a working system from the CD or flash drive without using the system disk. You can then test out the NIC to make sure it works before doing an installation.
>
> If 11.0 works for the NIC, and since you used freebsd-update, don't do an install from the CD/flash drive. Go back and reboot the system from the hard drive and use freebsd-update with a rollback command to go back to your 9.3 system you started with. Note, you may have to do a couple rollbacks to get to the clean 9.3 system. Go back to where the NIC works and then use freebsd-update to upgrade to the version that works with that NIC.
>

Thanks again Doug. The second rollback got me back to 9.3, never had
done a rollback before and didn't realize. I'm working again under 9.3
and the Live CD shows all my network cards work under 11.0, but now
having a problem with freebsd-update:

> root@backup2:/home/admin # freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
>
> The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
> kernel/generic src/src world/base
>
> The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
> world/doc world/games
>
> Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
>
> Fetching metadata signature for 11.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
> Applying metadata patches... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
>
> The update metadata is correctly signed, but
> failed an integrity check.
> Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.

I also tried running fetch/install and it seems to be stuck in a loop
doing this over and over stuck on 9.3-RELEASE-p43:

> root@backup2:/home/admin # freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.3-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> The following files will be removed as part of updating to 9.3-RELEASE-p53:
>
> root@backup2:/home/admin # freebsd-update install
> Installing updates... done.

I've researched a bit on the web, added the following to /etc/rc.conf:

kldxref_enable="YES"
kldxref_clobber="YES"

And to /etc/freebsd-update.conf:

IgnorePaths /boot/kernel/linker.hints

And finally cleaned out /tmp and /var/db/freebsd-update with no success.
Any help appreciated!