Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card?

From	"M.A. Perry" <maperry@zeelandnet.nl>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card?
Date	2017-01-14 10:20 +0100
Message-ID	<sZsFd-49R-33@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Dear People,
A question here, not a problem as such.
My (domestic dektop) runs under Debian 8.6 (Jessie)
and has a RealTek ethernet (i.e internet) wired interface.

On boot-up, the monitor briefly shows a message to the
effect     "... failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw firmware".
Running "dmesg | tail" shows much the same in more detail.

Nevertheless, the wired ethernet connection to internet
seems to work fine. There is no wireless interface on the
Asus P8B75-MLE motherboard as far as I know.

The above suggests that other software takes over the
function of the missing Non-Free RealTek driver.

Thus my question:  What should I do?
either:
a)  Leave things as they are ('If it ain't broke don't fix it')
or :
b) install the Debian non-free package "firmware-realtek (0.43)
Can someone with experience of this software please advise??
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
M.A. Perry
-- 
Sent from my unwashed Linux box

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Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? "M.A. Perry" <maperry@zeelandnet.nl> - 2017-01-14 10:20 +0100
  Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Вадим Колчев <vadimkolchev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-14 11:20 +0100
  Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-01-14 11:20 +0100
    Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-01-14 11:50 +0100
      Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-01-14 12:00 +0100
      Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-01-14 12:10 +0100
  Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-14 11:30 +0100
    Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-01-14 11:40 +0100
      Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-14 12:20 +0100
        Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-01-14 18:30 +0100
          Re: Which driver for RealTek RTL8168 ethernet interface card? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-14 21:30 +0100

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