freebsd-version
should show 10.1-RELEASE-p8. uname -a
would show 10.1-RELEASE-p6 as uname -a
reads the kernel version. freebsd-version
is 10.1-RELEASE-p6.(10.1-RELEASE-p6)
% ifconfig
alc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=c3198<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
ether 50:e5:49:4e:f4:c1
inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::52e5:49ff:fe4e:f4c1%alc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.0.20
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
freebsd-update
. Then I had to correct /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts. /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is another file that can improve the connection to a wireless gateway. Maybe the update changed some basic configuration settings in /etc/, if this is related to that issue. If this is the problem, you'd have to troubleshoot starting with ping
.