From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:11:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCGda9=KTrVSuNhegysidKgLx2=GYE1=4yRbURiyQncesQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw1yS+bJUrnSDp21jdGaXmuevWbCvDZaCEujC7n4YyXDQA@mail.gmail.com>
> That fixed it. Thank you very much. I'm a little puzzled because I
> don't get the "unable to apply firmware patch" messages on my desktop
> which also uses the r8169 driver and doesn't have linux-firmware
> installed.
Maybe you have an older firmware installed from a different package?
Run emerge -p linux-firmware on that box to see if there's a blocker.
> I guess linux-firmware is a package released by the kernel folks
> containing certain firmware blobs? It looks like rt73 is in there but
> not b43.
Maybe these?
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.txt
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw
/lib/firmware/LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-31 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-30 0:05 [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch Grant
2011-07-30 8:20 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-30 8:42 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-31 0:05 ` Grant
2011-07-31 5:11 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2011-07-31 19:17 ` Grant
2011-07-31 23:47 ` Adam Carter
2011-08-01 18:35 ` Grant
2011-08-01 18:45 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-01 19:04 ` Grant
2011-08-01 19:21 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-01 20:13 ` Grant
2011-08-01 20:30 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-02 3:29 ` Adam Carter
2011-08-02 14:48 ` Grant
2011-08-02 23:36 ` Adam Carter
2011-08-03 16:39 ` Grant
2011-08-03 17:32 ` Mick
2011-08-03 17:55 ` Grant
2011-08-02 14:43 ` Grant
2011-08-02 9:37 ` pk
2011-08-01 16:10 ` Paul Hartman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAC=wYCGda9=KTrVSuNhegysidKgLx2=GYE1=4yRbURiyQncesQ@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=adamcarter3@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox