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On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I remembered that i also had started having a problem with my intel |
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>> wireless card, and it looks like both the intel and realtek firmwares |
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>> are now in linux-firmware so try emerging that. |
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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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AFAIR the r8169 driver supports multiple chipsets, and they don't all |
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need the firmware file. So perhaps your two systems are not using |
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exactly the same chipset in the ethernet card... |
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On my desktop, I would get that warning, but it would work perfectly |
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fine anyway even without it being present. |
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According to Google results, the general opinion is that r8169 sucks |
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and seems like almost everybody has problems with it. :) |
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