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> That fixed it. Thank you very much. I'm a little puzzled because I |
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> don't get the "unable to apply firmware patch" messages on my desktop |
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> which also uses the r8169 driver and doesn't have linux-firmware |
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> installed. |
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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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> 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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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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