Il giorno gio, 24/06/2010 alle 01.24 +0400, Dmitry Samoyloff ha scritto: > At Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:59:49 -0400, > [email protected] wrote: > > > > ahoy all, > > > > sorry for the first message. i found the log file for the 2.6.33 > > libre-kernel and saw the message about the Realtek 8169 Ethernet > > Controller being removed in this version for "missing free firmware": > > > > R8169 - Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support > > drivers/net/r8169.c: report missing Free firmware > > drivers/net/r8169.c: removed blobs > > > > > > is it possible that this device may work in the future if a free > > firmware can be developed/reverse engineered? > > Hello Wayne, > > It seems to me like your Gentoo kernel is not deblobbed correctly, just like > gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r1 for me with deblob-2.6.34 script. Instead of removing > the Realtek's blob, it removes the whole source file. If you download the > deblobbed Linux from [1], you'd probably get your Realtek chip working. My > ethernet works OK with the deblobbed driver: > > # lspci | grep -i realtek > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B > PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) > > [1] > http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/download/releases/2.6.34-libre/ >
PS. is this a bug that we should submit somewhere in FSFLA? or it is a problem with the Gentoo deblob USE flag? -- http://wayne.in-giro.org _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
