[Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

[Frank Griffin]

On 03/24/2011 10:35 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>
> Could perhaps the firmware needed have been [re]moved with some other
> updates?...
>
> Perhaps the nic is not dead yet! :p
>
It sure looked like the files were in /lib/firmware/rtl, although I 
suppose they could have moved.  And booting with the prior kernel would 
still be using the same /lib/firmware, so the problem would occur with 
the older kernel as well.

But that doesn't cover the case of booting from a 2009.1 partition which 
has worked with this NIC before.  That partition would have the same 
kernel and /lib/firmware that worked the last time, no ?