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>> Maybe you have an older firmware installed from a different package? |
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>> Run emerge -p linux-firmware on that box to see if there's a blocker. |
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> |
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> linux-firmware is blocked by radeon-ucode and rt61-firmware, |
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I'm guessing that radeon-ucode and rt61-firmware and all the others |
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are being deprecated in favour of linux-firmware, but i don't recall |
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seeing an elog on it. |
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> but now |
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> that I look closer I realize that ifconfig doesn't show an eth0 |
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> interface at all even though lspci -v shows: |
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> |
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> Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI |
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> Express Gigabit Ethernet controller |
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> ... |
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> Kernel driver in use: r8169 |
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> Shouldn't the eth0 interface appear in ifconfig once the r8169 driver |
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> is loaded? dmesg has no mention of eth0 or r8169. |
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That's odd. Does that box still have the failed loading firmware |
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error? Perhaps missing firmware stops eth0 from being created. I'd try |
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installing linux-fireware and trying again (assuming you havent |
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already). |
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>>> I guess linux-firmware is a package released by the kernel folks |
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>>> containing certain firmware blobs? It looks like rt73 is in there but |
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>>> not b43. |
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>> |
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>> Maybe these? |
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>> /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin |
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>> /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.txt |
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>> /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw |
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>> /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw |
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>> /lib/firmware/LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx |
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> Right again. The contents of /lib/firmware/b43 and /lib/firmware/brcm |
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> are completely different, but you think either one will work with a |
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> b43 device? |
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The driver will know which one it wants. You could grep the source for |
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the firmware file names to see which it pulls in. |
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