missing rtl8168d-1.fw causing 2 minute boot delay

From: Thomas Fjellstrom
Date: Mon Feb 15 2010 - 00:14:22 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/