On 12/04/14 18:53, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Has anyone got =net-misc/r8168-8.028.00::gentoo to compile?
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Can anyone advise me how to proceed here? I've been using the in-kernel R8169
module with no problems until I installed Snort, but now I have to keep
issuing "ethtool -K eth0 gro off" every minute
I had similar problems until I discovered that the in-kernel R8169
driver actually tries to load firmware from disk. That firmware wasn't
there. If that is your problem, then this:
dmesg | grep -i firmware
would print something like:
r8169 [...]: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw
(Make sure to reboot your machine first in case that message is too old
and wasn't kept in the kernel message log.)
Solution to the problem was fairly simple. I just emerged this package:
sys-kernel/linux-firmware
and my network has been rock solid ever since. If you still get the
"unable to load firmware" message from dmesg after emerging that
package, then make sure you compile the driver as a module instead of
in-kernel, since the firmware directory might not be available yet when
the driver is loaded. Compiling it as a module results in the driver
being loaded a bit later, so the directory will be available at that time.
