Bug#606853: Realtek RTL8111/8168B fails to load firmware patch

["Jon Black" <jon_black@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:11 +0000, "Ben Hutchings" <ben@decadent.org.uk>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 13:51 +0100, Jon Black wrote:
> [...]
> > The following output is from dmesg after running 'modprobe -r r8169;
> > modprobe r8169':
> > 
> > udev[76]: starting version 163
> > r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
> > r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> > r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X
> > eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xf7c62000, <what-looks-like-a-mac-address>,
> > XID 081000c0 IRQ 28
> > r8169 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-1.fw
> > eth0: unable to apply firmware patch
> > 
> > This last line doesn't appear during boot.
> 
> Does eth0 exist after this?  Does anything else appear in the log?

No, there is neither eth0 in ifconfig output nor any other messages in
the dmesg log.