I was having problems with my network adapter so I turned on the debugging to help. I found my rtl8168d adapter needed firmware and the r8169 driver could not find it. I asked google. During my search I found that there is a git repository for the firmware.
http://lwn.net/Articles/294308/
As the article says it contains the normal kernel firmware plus other contributions which include the Realtek stuff I need.
Is this already in the slackware kernel and I missed it?
Or should it be in there either in the kernel-firmware package or a new kernel-firmware-extra package?
What do you think? Some of the stuff is not GPL2 but does have a permissive distribution license.