Ben (et al): Your patch (with Stefan's addition, replacing dev->name with "r8169") also worked for me on an Intel i7 920 system (amd64) running unstable (w/o the firmware).
Dec 20 18:39:08 octane kernel: [ 1.100454] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded Dec 20 18:39:08 octane kernel: [ 1.100471] r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 Dec 20 18:39:08 octane kernel: [ 1.100960] eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xffffc90000c7a000, 00:1f:bc:08:c4:16, XID 081000c0 IRQ 30 Dec 20 18:39:08 octane kernel: [ 1.105168] r8169 0000:06:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl8168d-1.fw Dec 20 18:39:08 octane kernel: [ 1.106433] Failed to load rtl8168d-1.fw. ... Dec 20 18:39:08 octane kernel: [ 12.736957] r8169: eth0: link up This NIC is onboard the mobo: EVGA X58 SLI LE http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=141-BL-E757-TR&family=Motherboard%20Family Thanks! --Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
