On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 18:42 +0100, terb21 wrote: [...] > First of all, I have used graphical installation. I want to write > three things. FIrst during installation I've got information that I > have to install some non-free firmware for my devices. It was > "The missing firmware files are: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw" > I had no idea what device it is until I have googled it - its some > kind of Realtek drivers, right? Completely ignored it and continued > installation. And somehow my computer still work.
It is a binary patch for your Ethernet interface chip. Recent RTL8168/RTL8111 chips have some firmware in ROM but bugs in this firmware can be fixed by the driver applying the binary patch. [...] > And third thing is for me a big problem. Installer didnt used my Line > 6 device. Ive been using openSUSE 12.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 and both > detected it properly as hardware sound device. [...] The line6 driver is in the Linux 'staging' area, and the kernel team usually does not enable building of such drivers unless specifically requested. But I'll treat this as a request to enable this driver. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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