From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751870Ab1KDGpP (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2011 02:45:15 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:57992 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750814Ab1KDGpO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2011 02:45:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4EB389BA.9000906@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:44:10 +0800 From: Wanlong Gao Reply-To: gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com Organization: FNST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110322 Red Hat/3.1.9-3.el6_0 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?S3J6eXN6dG9mIEtzacSFxbxlaw==?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug rtl8168 References: <7a1fedde.71754b01.4eb382e1.1200a@o2.pl> In-Reply-To: <7a1fedde.71754b01.4eb382e1.1200a@o2.pl> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.1FP4|July 25, 2010) at 2011-11-04 14:45:16, Serialize by Router on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.1FP4|July 25, 2010) at 2011-11-04 14:45:17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/04/2011 02:14 PM, Krzysztof Książek wrote: > Dear support team, > In the kernel 3.0.8 and 3.1 there is some bug with ethernet controller RTL8111/8168B PCI, > > my ls pci output: > 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06) > > bug in syslog: > r8169 0000:07:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2) > You can install the firmware by yourself, and it can work well without the firmware. I got the firmware from Fedora15 disto, and it worked well with the firmware, too. Thanks