Realtek driver issue when performing minor upgrade from 14.1 to 14.3

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Hello, the Realtek ethernet interface on my motherboard is no longer working when I did an upgrade from 14.1 to 14.3. Here's what I did
  1. On 14.1 I ran freebsd-update fetch followed by freebsd-install
  2. Ran freebsd-version -k and uname -r. The outputs were different which means there was a kernel update, so I rebooted.
  3. After rebooting, this is when the issue started. I use it as a headless server and ssh into it, but I could no longer do so due to it not being connected to my network.
  4. I connected my phone via USB to tether its internet connection and then I ran pkg install realtek-re-kmod but it says it's already installed.
  5. When I run ifconfig I'm only seeing the loopback and ue0 (tethered phone) interfaces, not the ethernet interface.
  6. I went ahead and ran freebsd-update -r 14.3-RELEASE upgrade successfully followed by freebsd-install. I rebooted and ran freebsd-install again.
However, I'm still unable to get my ethernet interface working. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


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It is working for me in 14.3-RELEASE, but I it's a long time since I did the upgrade. I don't know if it's any help, but I have the following information in my boot messages:
Code: 
ig4iic0: <Intel Alder Lake-S I2C Controller-0> at device 21.0 on pci0
ig4iic0: Using MSI
I have ig4.ko and iic.ko loaded, and exactly the same kernel driver versions.
 
Code: 
# pkg clean -a
# pkg update -f
# pkg delete realtek-re-kmod
# pkg install realtek-re-kmod
And you should reinstall all packages if not done with:
# pkg upgrade -f
 
Thanks all for the suggestions. I did them all and afterwards I'm still unable to see the ethernet interface when running the ifconfig command. I received a suggestion to check whether my kmods repo was configured correctly on 14.3, so I ran the following command

Code: 
pkg update -r kmods

I got back the following error
Code: 
No repositories are enabled.
 
The default name for this repository is FreeBSD-kmods. It is case sensitive.
Code: 
# pkg update -r FreeBSD-kmods
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date.
FreeBSD-kmods is up to date.
 
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