On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: > # dmesg | grep firm > [ 70.453673] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch > rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw (-2) > # ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1324 Aug 12 13:09 /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw > > Any ideas why this fails? Filesystem is mounted, file is readable...
1) build the driver as a module (firmware loading from disk does not work otherwise) 2) emerge linux-firmware, if you haven't already. 3) reboot and good luck :)
