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Bug#610302: marked as done (Fails to load non-free firmware for RT8169 (10ec:8168 rev3))

Your message dated Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:20:33 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#610302: Fails to load non-free firmware for RT8169 (10ec:8168 rev3)
has caused the Debian Bug report #610302,
regarding Fails to load non-free firmware for RT8169 (10ec:8168 rev3)
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Package: debian-installer
Version: netboot 2011-01-17
Severity: important
The installer correctly detects and installs the firmware, if it is provided by the firmware-realtek (0.28) package on a VFAT USB stick. But the kernel is unable to load the "rtl8168d-2.fw".
I manually moved the firmware from /lib/firmware/rtl_nic => /lib/firmware.
Now the kernel was able to load the firmware and I got an eth0 device, but the driver seems to be broken: DHCP fails and manual configuration doesn't work either.
Instead I get a "NETDEV WATCHDOG" error message for eth0 in dmesg (transmit queue 0 timed out) and a kernel backtrace for "dev_watchdog". 

Debian Lenny and Ubuntu 10.04 install fine on the same notebook.

Jan-Marek
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:00:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote:
> > The installer correctly detects and installs the firmware, if it is
> > provided by the firmware-realtek (0.28) package on a VFAT USB stick.
> > But the kernel is unable to load the "rtl8168d-2.fw".
> 
> I don't see how this can be anything but a bug in the firmware-realtek
> package.
> 
> > I manually moved the firmware from /lib/firmware/rtl_nic =>
> > /lib/firmware.
> > 
> > Now the kernel was able to load the firmware and I got an eth0
> > device, but the driver seems to be broken: DHCP fails and manual
> > configuration doesn't work either.
> > 
> > Instead I get a "NETDEV WATCHDOG" error message for eth0 in dmesg
> > (transmit queue 0 timed out) and a kernel backtrace for
> > "dev_watchdog".
> 
> So either you fooled the kernel into loading the wrong firmware, or
> something else.

Correct, the firmware files added to firmware-realtek are *not* in the
format that was expected by older kernel versions.  They should work
with kernel version 2.6.32-30, 2.6.37-1~experimental.1 or later.

Ben.

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