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Bug#561309: Thecus n2100, d-i and #561309



On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 02:05 -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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)?

No, there was a bug in the error path for the variant that did need it.

> Are you saying that the Thecus n2100 doesn't have the particular
> chipset versions for which it requests firmware? (eg, rtl8168d)

Right, they have one of two RTL8169 variants.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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