Package: firmware-linux-nonfree Version: 0.21 Severity: normal > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:11 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > Package: firmware-linux-nonfree > > Version: 0.21 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Installing the new kernel package "linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64" > > results in new warning messages like: > > > > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r8169 > > > > It looks like this firmware was removed from the kernel proper as part > > of the non-free firmware removal process, which suggests that it should > > be included in firmware-linux-nonfree instead. > > We don't yet have clear permission to distribute this. However, it is > only required for a chip which is newly supported by the r8169 driver in > 2.6.32. If the driver worked for you before, it will continue to work > now.
May I provide evidence to the contrary? I compile my own kernels, and use them exclusively unless some problem arises which forces me to use another kernel. Therefore, I keep a stock Debian kernel installed and available via GRUB in case something bad happens with my kernels. In the Fall I had to replace the motherboard on my desktop system, and it uses r8169. The Debian kernels for 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 will boot fine on this hardware and provide perfectly working ethernet support. When 2.6.32-truck (AMD64 here) was released, I tried switching to that for my Debian backup kernel... but it hangs in boot, with some very nasty backtracing. It does print the warning about missing firmware, but the boot will not finish -- unlike previous Debian kernels on this same hardware. I usually build my custom kernels from kernel.org git now, since kernel-archive.buildserver.net went down. Those run just fine for me. I did not submit a bug report on this because I looked at the Debian BTS first, and saw that the issue had already been addressed: missing firmware would likely appear later. I assumed that the Debian Kernel Team knew that 2.6.32 will not boot on hardware like mine without that firmware, but now I see that my assumption was wrong. Would you like me to submit a new bug report, or is merely providing this anecdote sufficient? HTH, Dave W. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-0git091206.desktop.vesa (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages. firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages. Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests: ii initramfs-tools 0.93.4 tools for generating an initramfs ii linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64 [l 2.6.31-2 Linux 2.6.31 for 64-bit PCs ii linux-image-2.6.32-0git091206 daw06 Linux kernel binary image for vers -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
