no internet after build world-kern install

[jl at burghcom.com]

> I have done a  buildworld from 4.9 to 5.3 and also installed a new custom kernel and
> after all whent ok i rebooted the box and goto ping yahoo.com and i cant get out ,
> and i also tryed pinging my outhere ip address and nothing on eathere one it just
> say destination unreachable. so i whent back and rebuilt a new kern with all
> defaults execpt i added
> options          IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
> and i still cant ping out . i have checked to see if the net card was up , if i do a
> ifconfig it shows it as active there,  i have whent into rc.conf and removed out my
> firewal script that i did have running , still nuthilg, and durring boot its showing
> my net card there
> so what would be causeing this?  if you need more info just let me know
> ohh and yea i do have a ip assigned to my net card IE:65.102.x.x
> and thanks inadvance for any help that you can give me on this.
>

I had the same problem going from 5.2 to 5.3
Make sure you have:
device        ether
in your kernel.

While you're at it, be sure to add:
device        random
device        mem
to your kernel also.

Jeff Love
Burgh Gaming