On Thu 26 Jan 2012 at 23:03:03 +0100, Lionel Vaux wrote: > After completing the install and rebooting, the > ethernet adapter works fine without any special firmware file > (although I keep getting a line "r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: > unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw (-2)" in dmesg). You want the firmware-realtek package from non-free.