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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:47:03
Message-Id: CAC=wYCEVwx3S4bfph-iRh9n9bcjqkkQyo25bKvJpaaY6B1gQTQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load by "J. Roeleveld"
1 > Is the filesystem mounted when it tries to find the firmware?
2
3 I thought it was, but having another look at dmesg, it looks like
4 that's not the case.
5
6 proxy linux # dmesg | grep eth0
7 [ 0.897559] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at
8 0xffffc90000360000, 1c:6f:65:20:3f:c6, XID 083000c0 IRQ 41
9 [ 70.453673] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch
10 rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2)
11 [ 70.461027] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down
12 [ 70.461050] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down
13 [ 70.461444] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
14 [ 72.851287] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link up
15 [ 72.851846] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
16
17 proxy linux # dmesg | grep btrfs
18 [ 1.647953] btrfs: use lzo compression
19 [ 2.129807] VFS: Mounted root (btrfs filesystem) on device 0:13.
20
21 > In other words, are you perhaps using a ramdisk?
22 >
23 > If you have this drives as a module, can you try removing it (rmmod
24 > <driver> and then reloading it (modprobe <driver>)?
25 >
26 > If it isn't a module, can you rebuild your kernel to have the relevant
27 > driver as a module?
28
29 Its not a module - i'll make it one and see how that goes.