At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:59:31 +0200, wayne wrote: > > 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) > > ahoy Dmitry, > > thanks for the response. actually, even though the device is not > working, it is showing up in lspci output. i am not sure if this means > that drive is loaded, but some other problem is causing it not to work, > or only that the kernel recognizes the hardware.
To check if the driver is present on your system at all, try modprobe -l: # modprobe -l r8169 /lib/modules/2.6.34-libre/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko To check if it's loaded, check the lsmod output: # lsmod | grep r8169 r8169 25460 0 mii 2960 1 r8169 I've got the foregoing output in Gentoo with the vanilla Linux from FSFLA server. When I tried to build gentoo-sources with "deblob" USE flag turned on, the driver wasn't built at all. AFAIR there were error messages from the deblobbing script also. > PS. is this a bug that we should submit somewhere in FSFLA? or it is a > problem with the Gentoo deblob USE flag? I think this behavior should be reported to the Gentoo Linux-libre maintainers. -- I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom! <http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7253> _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
