On Mon, 26 May 2014 18:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon <hlera...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How does one find out if the Realtek Gigabit card is 8168B, 8168A, 8168E....? lscpi, dmidecode, hwinfo. First one comes out of the box in Debian. > > Every time the kernel boots it complains about missing rtl8168e-3.fw, yet > > everything just works™. > > It happens to my machine too. During bootup, it tells me that the > firmware-realtek is missing and yet I am able to use it for networking. > Strange. No, that means you're lucky to have the hardware that doesn't need any firmware at all. > > And I don't want to load this blob into my card as it might as well setup > > port mirroring to the nearest NSA datacenter > > Are you serious? Realtek is a Taiwanese manufacturer, not American. Moreover > all of Realtek's products are made in China. I was joking, of course. Still, I don't know what this firmware does. And nobody short of Realtek do. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140527092504.de6b3507bdc6c864d92e2...@gmail.com
