Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 23:02 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > The Thecus n2100 uses r8169 for ethernet. > > Per #561309, in 2.6.32, that module requests two firmware files > > (that are not packaged and are nonfree anyway), even when they are not > > needed by the actual hardware. (The n2100 doesn't need them.) > > It does not. However, the static information in the module lists all > firmware files that it might request. I thought the crash reported in #561309 was caused by the module trying to load firmware on a machine that didn't have it (and didn't need it)? Are you saying that the Thecus n2100 doesn't have the particular chipset versions for which it requests firmware? (eg, rtl8168d) -- see shy jo
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