My laptop's "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller" uses the r8169 driver. On kernel 2.6.36 it works fine, but on 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 it doesn't work and continuously outputs "eth0: unable to apply firmware patch" to dmesg. I found this workaround:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882599-start-0.html I'm just wondering if anyone has run into the same problem and found a better solution. - Grant
