Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot-time message about nic firmware patch
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 21:59:38
Message-Id: CAEH5T2MC8f=A2Lt75dNOQjZQ88AUHh++HDyezPppVbXicsZpaA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] boot-time message about nic firmware patch by waltdnes@waltdnes.org
1 On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:04 AM, <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > The last 4 lines from dmesg...
3 >
4 > [ 4.299946] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2)
5 > [ 4.312766] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
6 > [ 4.312784] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
7 > [ 6.019910] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link up
8 >
9 > It works. I'm sending this email via that nic, but I wonder if it
10 > could cause problems down the road. Here's what "lspci -v" shows for
11 > the nic.
12
13 You need to install the package linux-firmware, it contains that file
14 and others. Then the message should go away! :)