Re: problem (+ solution) with firmware-realtek (0.43~bpo70+1)

Dear all,

sorry that I have to come back to this.

Indeed, the missing files are included. When I extract the package, I get:

'rtl8105e-1.fw rtl8168d-2.fw rtl8168f-1.fw rtl8168g-3.fw
rtl8106e-1.fw rtl8168e-1.fw rtl8168f-2.fw rtl8402-1.fw
rtl8106e-2.fw rtl8168e-2.fw rtl8168g-1.fw rtl8411-1.fw
rtl8168d-1.fw rtl8168e-3.fw rtl8168g-2.fw rtl8411-2.fw'

However, after installing with

apt-get -t wheezy-backports install firmware-realtek

I get error messages:

[   15.626248] r8169 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw (-2)
[   15.626284] r8169 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[   15.626285] r8169 0000:02:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[   15.811281] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw (-12)

Another 'ls /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/' gives:

rtl8105e-1.fw rtl8168d-2.fw rtl8168e-2.fw rtl8168f-1.fw
rtl8168d-1.fw rtl8168e-1.fw rtl8168e-3.fw rtl8168f-2.fw

After copying the files from the extracted package, the error messages disappear, of course.

So there seems to be a problem in the installation process of the package firmware-realtek_0.43_all.deb. Can't figure it out yet.

Kind regards

Juergen

On 10 January 2015 at 23:11, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

On Sat, 2015-01-10 at 19:57 +0100, Juergen Schraten wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> after upgrading the kernel to version 3.16 with the package
> 'linux-image-amd64' I got error messages in regard to
> firmware-realtek.
>
> It was complained that
> rtl8168g-3.fw
> rtl8168g-2.fw
> rtl8106e-2.fw
> rtl8106e-1.fw
> rtl8411-2.fw
> rtl8411-1.fw
> rtl8402-1.fw
>
> were missing.
[...]

> Would it be possible to include these files in the next version of
> firmware-realtek?

They are included in the wheezy-backports version.

Ben.

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