From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752229Ab0BOFOS (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:14:18 -0500 Received: from troy.hostgo.com ([64.62.143.130]:57288 "EHLO troy.hostgo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751770Ab0BOFOR (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:14:17 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 668 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:14:17 EST From: Thomas Fjellstrom To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: missing rtl8168d-1.fw causing 2 minute boot delay Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:14:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-trunk-amd64; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002142214.13818.tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - troy.hostgo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - strangesoft.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm having problems with my home server. Basically it stalls for two minutes looking for a firmware file that doesn't seem to exist anywhere on the internet. just references on the debian mailing lists saying they don't have permission to distribute the firmware. [ 66.376056] eth0: unable to apply firmware patch [ 67.180794] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 67.182785] r8169 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 67.184928] r8169 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 67.184958] alloc irq_desc for 30 on node 0 [ 67.184960] alloc kstat_irqs on node 0 [ 67.184970] r8169 0000:03:00.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X [ 67.185464] eth1: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xffffc90000656000, 00:24:1d:18:f8:f3, XID 081000c0 IRQ 30 [ 67.194306] r8169 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-1.fw [ 127.196044] eth1: unable to apply firmware patch It's obviously non-fatal, but its also very annoying. Is there a way I can get rid of this 2 minute delay? -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@strangesoft.net