From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QstbS-0004re-8b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:37:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77D3D21C130; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B9121C130 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:35:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.142] (helo=smtp11.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QstaF-000182-LG for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:35:47 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp11.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QstZi-0003BR-80 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:35:14 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C4FBC6 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:38:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yZDduAEQ+idY for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:38:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99FB70E for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:38:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 10.10.11.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:38:44 +0200 Message-ID: <09f426b281f06826f8603d8086e279c1.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:38:44 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QstZi-0003BR-80 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-1.729, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.81) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 78736591e76f134dba1bfda6817df30b On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:13 am, Adam Carter wrote: > # dmesg | grep firm > [ 70.453673] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch > rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2) > # ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324 Aug 12 13:09 > /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw > > Any ideas why this fails? Filesystem is mounted, file is readable... Is the filesystem mounted when it tries to find the firmware? In other words, are you perhaps using a ramdisk? If you have this drives as a module, can you try removing it (rmmod and then reloading it (modprobe )? If it isn't a module, can you rebuild your kernel to have the relevant driver as a module? -- Joost