On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 11:58 +1000, Gerry Butler wrote: > I have a partial upgrade to squeeze and I am unable to continue because there > is no network connection. > > I followed recommendations in squeeze release notes. That is > > 1. do a minimal upgrade. > > 2. upgrade kernel and udev. > > 3. During kernel upgrade, apt-get reported missing firmware files: > r8169: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw and ...-1.fw. > > 4. While the network connection still existed, I installed firmware-realtek. > (I also installed firmware-linux-nonfree, as I was not quite certain at that point which > package contained rtl8168d-1|2.fw.) > > 5. After installing firmware packages, /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1|2.fw > both exist. > > 6. After re-booting into squeeze there is no network connection. > > syslog contains the entries: > r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded > r8169 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > r8169 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > r8169 0000:03:00.0: irq 34 for MSI/MSI-X > RTL8168d/8111d at 0xffffc90000c44000, 00:24:1d:d2:e6:7b, XID 083000c0 IRQ 34 > r8169 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw > eth0: unable to apply firmware patch [...] This network controller has firmware in NVRAM (ROM or flash), but it has a bug that means it cannot make a good connection to some other devices. The driver tries to apply a bug fix to it. If this fails, it is *not* a fatal error and the driver should continue to work. What does 'ip link show eth0' report? What does 'ethtool eth0' report? Are there any further kernel log messages referring to eth0 or r8169? Ben.
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