From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:47:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCGghOV-GO9pWsVV8jmQkYV_E3QtrFZ2a7FsgPnQyPjX5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw0z7aBrSwND1-S6ssx06_oB7P1iyoXCHnpBZz=RwO-Rxw@mail.gmail.com>
>> 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.
>
> linux-firmware is blocked by radeon-ucode and rt61-firmware,
I'm guessing that radeon-ucode and rt61-firmware and all the others
are being deprecated in favour of linux-firmware, but i don't recall
seeing an elog on it.
> but now
> that I look closer I realize that ifconfig doesn't show an eth0
> interface at all even though lspci -v shows:
>
> Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI
> Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
> ...
> Kernel driver in use: r8169
>
> Shouldn't the eth0 interface appear in ifconfig once the r8169 driver
> is loaded? dmesg has no mention of eth0 or r8169.
That's odd. Does that box still have the failed loading firmware
error? Perhaps missing firmware stops eth0 from being created. I'd try
installing linux-fireware and trying again (assuming you havent
already).
>>> 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
>
> Right again. The contents of /lib/firmware/b43 and /lib/firmware/brcm
> are completely different, but you think either one will work with a
> b43 device?
The driver will know which one it wants. You could grep the source for
the firmware file names to see which it pulls in.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-31 23:48 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
2011-07-31 19:17 ` Grant
2011-07-31 23:47 ` Adam Carter [this message]
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
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