On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 02:17:02PM -0500, Dave Wagler wrote: > > > > 2. Missing Realtek ethernet controller firmware patches: > > > > My system has a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express > > Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 09). It requires the r8169 kernel > driver. > > When I booted the LFS system, this error occurred: > > > > r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch > > rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw (-2) > > > > I found several patch files in the Linux Mint 14 host system, copied them > > into LFS, and the error disappeared. > > > Yeah. If it's like my two machines using that, it does seem to > work without the firmware! See the example under the xorg ati video > driver in the BLFS book. If you have an excessive amount of memory, > building in the firmware does no harm. Otherwise, put it in > /lib/firmware, point the kernel to which firmware(s) to use, and > point the kernel to /lib/firmware. I'm not experienced enough to do this without some pretty explicit guidelines. Absent that, I'll just let the patches load during boot. I will keep the possibility in mind for a future exercise. Thanks. > The downside to building it in > is that it takes up kernel memory, which cannot be freed, but is > only used when the device is initialized. So, more of an issue on > 32-bit (on my latest machine, with 4GB, I get about 3.5GB of memory > in x86_64 after deducting video and whatever, but only 2.5GB in > 32-bit). > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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