https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801945 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801945#c0 Summary: kernel-firmware package doesn't install firmware.sh for udev Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Franz.Reinhardt@wenglor.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 The helper script firmware.sh to load firmware for kernel drivers is missing in the kernel-firmware rpm. It is available in the src rpm, but not installed in /lib/udev/ where it is expected by udev Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: You need a device which requires firmware to load i.e. an r8169 NIC Actual Results: a warning goes into the log messages, the boot time increases. --snippet from /var/log/messages Feb 5 11:46:40 linux-q1k2 dbus-daemon[571]: dbus[571]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' Feb 5 11:46:40 linux-q1k2 dbus[571]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' Feb 5 11:47:04 linux-q1k2 udevd[5015]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/firmware.sh' 'firmware.sh': No such file or directory Feb 5 11:47:04 linux-q1k2 kernel: [ 66.016175] microcode: CPU1 sig=0x106ca, pf=0x8, revision=0x107 Feb 5 11:47:39 linux-q1k2 kernel: [ 100.832149] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw (-2) Feb 5 11:47:39 linux-q1k2 kernel: [ 100.855624] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: link down Feb 5 11:47:39 linux-q1k2 kernel: [ 100.856781] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready Feb 5 11:47:51 linux-q1k2 ifup-dhcp[1051]: eth1 Starting DHCP4 client -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.