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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:
> # dmesg | grep firm
> [ =A0 70.453673] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch
> rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2)
> # ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324 Aug 12 13:09 /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2=
.fw
>
> Any ideas why this fails? Filesystem is mounted, file is readable...

1) build the driver as a module (firmware loading from disk does not
work otherwise)
2) emerge linux-firmware, if you haven't already.
3) reboot and good luck :)