Martin Michlmayr wrote:
There is a Broadcom Tg3 in this machine. It works with Windows XP, and used to work with suse using the bcm5700 driver from broadcom. The tg3 driver fails in the common way (it says it is handling it, but the led on the back of the machine is mostly of except for a slight blink every second or so). No network installation possible.What kind of chip do you have exactly? Can you print the output of the kernel when you load the tg3 module. Have you heard of other people with this problem?
I've seen it happen with SuSE and seen it on other sites too (http://www.hardeman.nu/~david/thinkpad/#network). So the network card is no Debian specific issue. The partition issue is real however. Regards, Marcel Ammerlaan