When booting using iscsi, the connection drops to load in the firmware file before actually retrieving the firmware

Oct 30 02:42:02 gentoophenom2 kernel: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3208.122 MHz.
Oct 30 02:42:02 gentoophenom2 kernel: Switching to clocksource tsc
Oct 30 02:42:02 gentoophenom2 kernel: r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw (-2)
Oct 30 02:42:02 gentoophenom2 kernel: r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down
Oct 30 02:42:02 gentoophenom2 kernel: r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down
Oct 30 02:42:02 gentoophenom2 kernel: r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link up
Oct 30 02:42:02 gentoophenom2 kernel: Sending DHCP requests ., OK

small snippet, it's not a major issue, just a curiosity on how to fix it.  I started using gentoo with kernel 3.3.8, I'm currently on 3.5.7

is there a way to change the order around or some similar easy fix?

Thanks in advance :)