On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:09:38 +0000 Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:43:04PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Samstag, 22. Januar 2011 schrieb Joe Riel: > > > I just upgraded my system and got the warnings > > > > > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... > > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 > > > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw > > > for module r8169 W: Possible missing > > > firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169 > > > > > > I then installed firmware-realtek, which provides the missing > > > files. Do I need to reconfigure initramfs-tools for this to take > > > effect? > > No, a far as I know, the required kernel-modules are searching > > in /lib/firmware and load, what they need. However, if you do not > > trust them, you can do "update-initramfs -u", which does not do > > dangerous things. > > The initramfs /might/ need the firmware before / is mounted (example: > netbooting) in which case the firmware will be needed in the initrd. > So running update-initramfs is certainly going to do no harm, and > may be required. Thanks. I ran update-initramfs. Don't know if *that* did anything, but following a reboot kern.log had changed: WAS: Jan 17 23:26:00 gauss kernel: [ 1.001780] r8169 0000:02:00.0:firmware: requesting rtl8168d-2.fw Jan 17 23:26:00 gauss kernel: [ 1.002981] eth0: unable to apply firmware patch IS: Jan 22 09:52:54 gauss kernel: [ 0.998226] r8169 0000:02:00.0:firmware: requesting rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw -- Joe Riel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110122123058.5b5f3492@gauss
