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Jaglover
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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 12:46 am Post subject: r8169 firmware load failure |
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Can someone tell me what's wrong here? The firmware is where it should be.
| Code: | [ 10.681670] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: Invalid action 0x50595443
[ 10.681685] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw (-22)
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ct85711
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| did you build the driver as built in or as a module? (If you built the driver in, you also need to build the firmware into the kernel too.) |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Jaglover,
Do you have /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw ?
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Jaglover
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Neddy,
I certainly do, the error (-22) is not the same as not found (-2). I suspect the error in dmesg has something to do with it.
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krinn
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:39 am Post subject: |
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you might also just disable the firmware, my previous m/b nic was using a r8169 too but the card was running fine without any firmware.
i know many users report trouble with r8169 cards, but it seems not all cards are totally buggy. |
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pierre.labastie
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I know this thread is somewhat old, but I found it because I had the exact same error:
| Code: | Sep 28 21:46:46 turboli kernel: [ 9.625227] r8169 0000:03:00.0: Invalid action 0x50595443
Sep 28 21:46:46 turboli kernel: [ 9.625248] r8169 0000:03:00.0: Unable to load firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw (-22) |
and I think I've understood the reason why this message is displayed: When loading a firmware blob, the kernel performs some checks to verify that the loaded file is indeed a firmware blob. But it was not in my case: what I have done is going to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/rtl_nic, and then select "Save link as" by right clicking on the filename I needed. Problem is that doing that, you save an html file, not a firmware blob! What you need to do is click on the filename (this displays an hexdump of the file), then click on "(plain)' near the hash of the blob... |
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