How to build LAN drivers with no internet access

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> If the firmware for your NIC is
> missing from firmware-realtek (rtl8402-1.fw and rtl8411-1.fw currently) get it
> from
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtl_nic;h=433ba2c0164f9809221d969d3d60e605575790fc;hb=HEAD,
> and copy to /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> baruch
>

On a fresh install, having only moved the mentioned files to
/lib/firmware/rtl_nic and then rebooting:
shelly at neptune:~$ ls /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/
rtl8105e-1.fw  rtl8168d-1.fw  rtl8168d-2.fw  rtl8168e-1.fw
rtl8168e-2.fw  rtl8168e-3.fw  rtl8168f-1.fw  rtl8168f-2.fw
rtl8402-1.fw  rtl8411-1.fw  rtl_nic_rtl8402-1.fw  rtl_nic_rtl8411-1.fw


Still no IP address:
shelly at neptune:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 54:04:a6:82:6b:eb
          inet6 addr: fe80::5604:a6ff:fe82:6beb/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:73 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:60 (60.0 B)  TX bytes:16788 (16.7 KB)
          Interrupt:41 Base address:0xa000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:8880 (8.8 KB)  TX bytes:8880 (8.8 KB)



Still using the old driver:
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo lshw | grep r8
[sudo] password for shelly:
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full
firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes
port=MII speed=100Mbit/s


So I try to change drivers but cannot load the new driver:
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo modprobe -r r8169
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo modprobe r8411
FATAL: Module r8411 not found.
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo modprobe r8402
FATAL: Module r8402 not found.
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo modprobe rtl8411
FATAL: Module rtl8411 not found.
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo modprobe rtl_nic_8411
FATAL: Module rtl_nic_8411 not found.
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo modprobe rtl_nic_8411-1
FATAL: Module rtl_nic_8411_1 not found.
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo modprobe rtl_nic_8411-1.fw
FATAL: Module rtl_nic_8411_1.fw not found.
shelly at neptune:~$


What should I do now?

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