From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46581381F3 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 21:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD800E093E; Fri, 17 May 2013 21:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm7-vm0.access.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm7-vm0.access.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.44.116]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42049E0928 for ; Fri, 17 May 2013 21:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.44.98] by nm7.access.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 May 2013 21:13:44 -0000 Received: from [67.195.15.62] by tm3.access.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 May 2013 21:13:44 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp103.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 May 2013 21:13:44 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 926668.74063.bm@smtp103.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: H14an.UVM1mkUuuERBiZHu8OvZhmLkAkO31uuKx6vsC8dPZ gduwQSjo0Aon1tMn9DA335akgdV.btoHNDi8loomYfvfrjbtnrUDWWE8kQHP D1DlK2eGsfBA.cfGekA3rDw72MLmWe1ykiTZ2EHRjSajvYgoMk8ZuR4DYbAa 0kI5tcptHkIkw5j03bH0o98eW7AmXRU3Kz3zuf06DJ9VQVxo7M78GsQIXmKq bO9uRGI4RF0MGWOQmUeHRoXu2KELxXAAZ6RJM7.2zX5Er2B9J_CuHCdrtkcb mUAb3ExlQLoP.mSWkAWr3suZM1XcpYLuc3KlnGX255cLGYqOMmrSpTOfU2JA N3axIkHLSj4F4xuaYWIWQ_jmdao8PXDl8alhXVVbIqpfPxMSay6fBtUl5Aqs iF_M5.cml5ZVhDktJ3dqnBuGHjebnlLAIFuevW23xUfXS0PYZaDX9ZzMsgVf OvN6qU1vDp1i0kvTsqEC2 X-Yahoo-SMTP: oM3WcDSswBC7zv73TQKEsi7eAZ0- X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (w41ter@69.234.183.178 with plain) by smtp103.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 May 2013 14:13:44 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <51969D8A.1020908@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 14:13:46 -0700 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: boot-time message about nic firmware patch References: <20130517150454.GA1958@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20130517150454.GA1958@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 87a87f84-9ebf-4bc7-9e62-33860214d9d4 X-Archives-Hash: d581a3ccd3c3e78ed773085a119c95b4 On 05/17/2013 08:04 AM, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote: > The last 4 lines from dmesg... > > [ 4.299946] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2) I had the same problem and took hours to figure it out because it's such a silly problem I didn't believe it at first :) The problem is with the firmware path in the kernel sources. Turns out that you can't include that "rtl_nic" in the module's name, so you need to change the default path /lib64/firmware to /lib64/firmware/rtl_nic and remove it from the module's name.