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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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Does anyone know if this is the case? Doesn't seem very Gentoo-like, |
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although it should minimize package management for the devs which is |
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good. |
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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 didn't have the firmware error on the desktop but I installed |
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linux-firmware and now eth0 is renamed to eth1 and appears under |
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iwconfig (no wireless extensions) but not under ifconfig. My laptop's |
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r8169 eth0 appears under ifconfig even when there's no ethernet cable |
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attached. That's the expected behavior isn't it? |
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- Grant |
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