This one time, at band camp, Ben Hutchings said: > On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 00:39 +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Sat, 08 Nov 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > > Fortunately for us, at the > > > moment I am not aware of large numbers of highly popular laptops or > > > servers for which non-free firmware is necessary before the firmware > > > would be able to access the network. > > > > HP DL360 G5: > > firmware-bnx2 > > (Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet) > > > > Yes, I was really thrilled when I found out we can't install lenny in > > any sane way on debian.org hardware. > > The crazy thing is, this is an on-board controller that supports PXE > boot, so it must be usable without loading firmware from the disk. But > I suspect the current driver requires the controller to do more than the > ROM/flash firmware does. My understanding (admittedly possibly wildly wrong) is that the card does work without any firmware, but doesn't support the full range of features without it. The current driver unfortunately doesn't seem to handle both cases at the moment. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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