On 2014-01-13, tty7 <tty7@tty7.org> wrote: > > Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The = > firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or = > floppy. > > The missing firmware files are: rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw > > If you have such media available now, insert it, and continue. I haven't read the thread very carefully, but could it be a bug? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725714