I've been running FreeBSD 13-CURRENT on my home server for months and have not had any problems with its ethernet connection. It's currently updated to 13-RC5. I prefix my question with this fact because I recently installed 13-RC4, since upgraded to RC5, on my Toshiba Satellite, and the wifi has been periodically dropping at seemingly random intervals requiring me to run "service netif restart" to get the wifi working again. I eventually ran an ethernet cable into my bedroom to deal with the issue, and the network connection is still periodically failing for both the wifi and ethernet simultaneously, and I have to restart netif to get it working again.
It seems like there's an issue with the wifi, and when it goes out, it takes out the ethernet with it. Because if the ethernet was having issues, I surely would have had problems on my server as well, but I haven't. So does anyone have any idea what might be wrong or how to diagnose the problem?
Additional information: In order to troubleshoot, I stopped the netif service, edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the lines configuring my wireless connection, then started netif. After restarting, my wifi was disabled as expected, but my ethernet connection also did not come back up. So I edited /etc/rc.conf again to uncomment the lines for my wifi then restarted netif. My wifi connection came back up, but my ethernet connection did not. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the cable. I tried restarting the netif service a few times and repeatedly checking the output of ifconfig. But the ethernet status continued to say "no carrier". It looks like I'll have to reboot to get the ethernet back up. So *something* sure isn't working right.
It seems like there's an issue with the wifi, and when it goes out, it takes out the ethernet with it. Because if the ethernet was having issues, I surely would have had problems on my server as well, but I haven't. So does anyone have any idea what might be wrong or how to diagnose the problem?
Additional information: In order to troubleshoot, I stopped the netif service, edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the lines configuring my wireless connection, then started netif. After restarting, my wifi was disabled as expected, but my ethernet connection also did not come back up. So I edited /etc/rc.conf again to uncomment the lines for my wifi then restarted netif. My wifi connection came back up, but my ethernet connection did not. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the cable. I tried restarting the netif service a few times and repeatedly checking the output of ifconfig. But the ethernet status continued to say "no carrier". It looks like I'll have to reboot to get the ethernet back up. So *something* sure isn't working right.