Bug 815937

Summary:	3.0.25-rt44.57.el6rt.x86_64 missing firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise MRG	Reporter:	evcz
Component:	realtime-kernel	Assignee:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Sommerseth <davids>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	2.2	CC:	acme, bhu, iboverma, jkastner, lgoncalv, ovasik, williams
Target Milestone:	2.2
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	BZ#815937 Previously, the firmware files for the RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet network card were moved from the main kernel upstream repository to the linux-firmware Git repository. This update adds the firmware files back to the MRG Realtime kernel and the network cards can now properly load them.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2012-09-19 18:03:46 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description evcz 2012-04-24 20:36:48 UTC

Description of problem:
kernel-rt-firmware and kernel-rt source rpm are missing realtek firmware files

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0.25-rt44.57.el6rt.x86_64

How reproducible:
Boot the machine with the kernel 3.0.25-rt44.57.el6rt.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1) boot the machine with the kernel 3.0.25-rt44.57.el6rt.x86_64
2) check dmesg output
  
Actual results:
Apr 24 21:57:58 blue kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw (-2)

Expected results:
No errors

Additional info:
the whole "rtl_nic" directory is missing

Comment 1 evcz 2012-05-17 19:44:26 UTC

the newly released kernel package is still missing the realtek firmware files

Into the source rpm kernel-rt-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.src.rpm there's no trace of the ./firmware/rtl_nic/ directory

Comment 2 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2012-05-29 18:34:06 UTC

The rtl_nics firmware files were removed from the upstream source tree and moved to the linux-firmware.git repository. We are checking the licensing aspects so as to package what is in the linux-firmware.git.

Comment 7 Beth Uptagrafft 2012-08-06 14:47:53 UTC

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    New Contents:
BZ#815937 
Previously, the firmware files for the RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet network card were moved from the main kernel upstream repository to the linux-firmware Git repository. This update adds the firmware files back to the MRG Realtime kernel and the network cards can now properly load them.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-19 18:03:46 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1282.html