Re: install woes with BCM5721
Well I found Q. 22 (& the corresponding reply) in
http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianInstallerFAQ
Note that this says: "Now this has mostly been resolved with a version
of the driver that does not contain such firmware and should work with
*most* cards" (my emphasis).
Apparently my cards are just not among the "most"... *sigh*
Is there any solution?
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:41:07 +0200, "dr.bob" <dr.bobik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, did I forget to mention that I grabbed a copy of the firmware files
> (http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/debian/)
> and after putting them on the system, warnings from the driver about
> firmware went away. But the NICs still don't work, even though
> no errors are being reported (see my dmesg & ifconfig output).
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:15:49 -0600, Stephen Waters <swaters@luy.info> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:51 +0200, dr.bob wrote:
> > > Using the current netinstall image for debian-amd64..
> > > The system is a dual xeon server by Fujitsu-SIemens, the installer
> > > selected kernel 2.6.8-10-em64t-p4.
> > > Installed the base system successfully, cannot get the network to
> operate
> > :(
> > >
> > > The system has 2 BCM5721 NICs, as reported by lspci -v:
> >
> > I suspect this is an issue with the non-free firmware having been
> > removed from the tg3 driver. Good luck with that. I emailed Broadcom
> > awhile back asking if they could GPL the firmware, but obviously they
> > didn't...
> >
> > -s
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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