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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load
From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
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> 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.