From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:45:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCEVwx3S4bfph-iRh9n9bcjqkkQyo25bKvJpaaY6B1gQTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09f426b281f06826f8603d8086e279c1.squirrel@www.antarean.org>
> Is the filesystem mounted when it tries to find the firmware?
I thought it was, but having another look at dmesg, it looks like
that's not the case.
proxy linux # dmesg | grep eth0
[ 0.897559] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at
0xffffc90000360000, 1c:6f:65:20:3f:c6, XID 083000c0 IRQ 41
[ 70.453673] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch
rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2)
[ 70.461027] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 70.461050] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 70.461444] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 72.851287] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link up
[ 72.851846] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
proxy linux # dmesg | grep btrfs
[ 1.647953] btrfs: use lzo compression
[ 2.129807] VFS: Mounted root (btrfs filesystem) on device 0:13.
> In other words, are you perhaps using a ramdisk?
>
> If you have this drives as a module, can you try removing it (rmmod
> <driver> and then reloading it (modprobe <driver>)?
>
> If it isn't a module, can you rebuild your kernel to have the relevant
> driver as a module?
Its not a module - i'll make it one and see how that goes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-15 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-15 9:13 [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load Adam Carter
2011-08-15 9:38 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-08-15 9:45 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2011-08-15 10:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-15 11:59 ` Adam Carter
2011-08-15 12:53 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-15 14:07 ` Andrea Conti
2011-08-16 1:53 ` Adam Carter
2011-08-16 5:07 ` victor romanchuk
2011-08-16 8:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrea Conti
2011-08-16 21:13 ` victor romanchuk
2011-08-15 15:56 ` Paul Hartman
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