Re: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r8169

[Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:09:38 +0000
Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:43:04PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 22. Januar 2011 schrieb Joe Riel:
> > > I just upgraded my system and got the warnings
> > > 
> > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
> > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
> > > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw
> > > for module r8169 W: Possible missing
> > > firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169
> > > 
> > > I then installed firmware-realtek, which provides the missing
> > > files. Do I need to reconfigure initramfs-tools for this to take
> > > effect?
> > No, a far as I know, the required kernel-modules are searching
> > in /lib/firmware and load, what they need. However, if you do not
> > trust them, you can do "update-initramfs -u", which does not do
> > dangerous things.
> 
> The initramfs /might/ need the firmware before / is mounted (example:
> netbooting) in which case the firmware will be needed in the initrd.
> So running update-initramfs is certainly going to do no harm, and
> may be required.

Thanks. I ran update-initramfs.  Don't know if *that* did anything,
but following a reboot kern.log had changed:

WAS:

Jan 17 23:26:00 gauss kernel: [    1.001780] r8169 0000:02:00.0:firmware: requesting rtl8168d-2.fw 
Jan 17 23:26:00 gauss kernel: [    1.002981] eth0: unable to apply firmware patch

IS:

Jan 22 09:52:54 gauss kernel: [    0.998226] r8169 0000:02:00.0:firmware: requesting rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw



-- 
Joe Riel