230520 Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 20 May 2023 10:54:21 BST Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2023-05-20, Michael wrote: >>> On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote: >>>> I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine >>>> & have got to the step of compiling a kernel. >>>> I used the config file from my present machine, did 'make oldconfig' >>>> & have then done 'make menuconfig' to include drivers etc. >>>> >>>> The 'make' stage goes on for a long time, then crashes doing >>>> 'UPD drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw.gen.S' >>>> with message "make [5] *** No rule to make target >>>> 'lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw' needed by >>>> 'drivers/base/firmware_loader/ builtin/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw.gen.o' >>>> Stop". >>>> >>>> The relevant line in Menuconfig is 'DeviceDrivers > NetworkDeviceSupport >>>> > >>>> EthernetDriverSupport' under 'Realtek devices'. >>>> I've tried it with 'Realtek8169/8168/...' 'Y' or 'M' or 'N' >>>> & also with 'Realtek devices' as 'N'. I also tried a 'make clean'. >>>> The same error goes on happening. >>>> >>>> Since I don't have anything by Realtek for networking >>>> -- sound uses Realtek -- , I can't understand the behaviour above. >>> The compilation complains it is missing the firmware required by a realtek >>> NIC, probably a setting inherited from the config settings of the old >>> kernel? You eventually compiled it with "N". I suspect the order in >>> which you configured/compiled it plays a role in this error. >>> Since you do not have this hardware, set it to "N", then run: >> Could this be the manually defined list of firmware blobs to include in >> the kernel image, and not something automatically pulled in by a driver? >> I'm not sure what's the quickest way to check, perhaps this works?: >> grep CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE /usr/src/linux/.config > This will not resolve the problem of a missing firmware file. > It is missing in the filesystem.
The problem was 'make oldconfig', which used a 5 year-old .config . For some reason, the resulting .config insisted on installing the Realtek driver, which wasn't available. I cut the Gordian knot by moving the other .config's out of the way & doing a raw 'make menuconfig'. Then the kernel compiled. If it needs further tweaking, esp for missing drivers, I can do it later. It's too late to do further steps today, so we'll see what happens when I try booting from the new kernel. Thanks for the various pieces of help. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
