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Bug#606853: marked as done (Realtek RTL8111/8168B fails to load firmware patch)

Your message dated Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:31:45 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#606853: Realtek RTL8111/8168B fails to load firmware patch
has caused the Debian Bug report #606853,
regarding Realtek RTL8111/8168B fails to load firmware patch
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Package: firmware-linux-nonfree
Version: 0.27

I'm running a server which uses the Intel D510MO Fanless Dual Core Atom Mini-ITX Board. I initially installed Lenny and everything worked well, but decided to do a fresh install of Squeeze beta which is using kernel 2.6.32-5-686.

During the installation of Squeeze there is a message saying that the firmware rtl8168d-1.fw is needed. As I had downloaded the Squeeze CD, I ignored it and continued, thinking I'd be able to install firmware-linux-nonfree afterwards to fix the problem. The information in bug report 561309 didn't fix the problem, and 564628 seems to apply to RTL8168D, whereas the output of lspci (see below) lists my network card as RTL8168B.
 
I've included output from various commands to help with debugging. After running these commands, as after the server has finished booting, there is no eth0 device listed in the output of ifconfig.

Dmesg output during boot:

udev[76]: starting version 163
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X
eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xf7c62000, <what-looks-like-a-mac-address>, XID 081000c0 IRQ 28
r8169 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-1.fw

There are no pauses in the process, and immediately after this (0.01s) usbcore messages begin.

Lspci -nn output:

01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)

This doesn't include output related to non-ethernet devices.

modprobe output:

The following output is from dmesg after running 'modprobe -r r8169; modprobe r8169':

udev[76]: starting version 163
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X
eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xf7c62000, <what-looks-like-a-mac-address>, XID 081000c0 IRQ 28
r8169 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-1.fw
eth0: unable to apply firmware patch

This last line doesn't appear during boot.

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 06:20:51PM +0100, Jon Black wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:20 +0000, "Ben Hutchings" <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 10:05 +0100, Jon Black wrote:
> > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:11 +0000, "Ben Hutchings" <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 13:51 +0100, Jon Black wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > The following output is from dmesg after running 'modprobe -r r8169;
> > > > > modprobe r8169':
> > > > > 
> > > > > udev[76]: starting version 163
> > > > > r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
> > > > > r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > > > > r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> > > > > r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X
> > > > > eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xf7c62000, <what-looks-like-a-mac-address>,
> > > > > XID 081000c0 IRQ 28
> > > > > r8169 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-1.fw
> > > > > eth0: unable to apply firmware patch
> > > > > 
> > > > > This last line doesn't appear during boot.
> > > > 
> > > > Does eth0 exist after this?  Does anything else appear in the log?
> > > 
> > > No, there is neither eth0 in ifconfig output nor any other messages in
> > > the dmesg log.
> > 
> > Wait, did you use just 'ifconfig' or 'ifconfig -a'?
> 
> Sorry, you're right, I used just 'ifconfig'. Using 'ifconfig -a' eth0
> does appear in the list:
> 
> eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr <mac-address-here>
>         BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>         Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>         Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>         Interrupt:28 Base address:0x800
>  
> This information is the same on boot and after the modprobe commands.
> 
I don't see any bug here, then.  Note that we will be adding the
RTL8168D firmware to firmware-linux-nonfree shortly.

Ben.

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