From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot-time message about nic firmware patch
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:59:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2MC8f=A2Lt75dNOQjZQ88AUHh++HDyezPppVbXicsZpaA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130517150454.GA1958@waltdnes.org>
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:04 AM, <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> The last 4 lines from dmesg...
>
> [ 4.299946] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2)
> [ 4.312766] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
> [ 4.312784] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
> [ 6.019910] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link up
>
> It works. I'm sending this email via that nic, but I wonder if it
> could cause problems down the road. Here's what "lspci -v" shows for
> the nic.
You need to install the package linux-firmware, it contains that file
and others. Then the message should go away! :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-17 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-17 15:04 [gentoo-user] boot-time message about nic firmware patch waltdnes
2013-05-17 21:13 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-05-17 21:59 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
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