Le 14/01/2017 à 10:18, M.A. Perry a écrit :
On boot-up, the monitor briefly shows a message to the
effect "... failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw firmware".
Running "dmesg | tail" shows much the same in more detail.
Nevertheless, the wired ethernet connection to internet
seems to work fine.(...)
The above suggests that other software takes over the
function of the missing Non-Free RealTek driver.
No.
1) The missing file is a firmware, not a driver.
2) No other software takes over the function of a missing firmware. The function just won't be used. Some firmware functions are optional, such as offload optimizations.