Re: BroadCom net card (bcm4400 kernel module) and sarge installer

[Rua Haszard Morris <r.haszard@uws.edu.au>]

> From: Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>
> Rua Haszard Morris wrote:
> >> I have a BroadCom 4400 NIC that is not being detected, leading to
> >> DHCP failing, leading to no additional .debs being available...
> > tg3 module contains support for BroadCom net cards
> > Cheers - I am guessing that now I simply need to "load additional driver
> > modules" and select tg3 early in the installation.. correct?
>
> Yes - assuming the Sarge installer doesn't find it for you.
Aha - I just tried doing that - there doesn't seem to be an option "load 
additional driver modules" (or anything like it) in the sarge installer. 
 Should there be?

I couldn't get to the list of modules that I'm used to seeing in the 
qoody installer; it tries to autodetect first.  When I manually chose it 
"Detect hardware" again, after the DHCP failed, i was able to choose 
from a 'list' of modules - but only the one it had detected apparently 
("Linux floppy") (which is funny because the machine has no floppy!).

Should I be emailing this to debian-boot as well? I think so... 
(conesquently there's a little summary above)

Thanks for the help so far, I'm not giving up ! (But I am about to 
install Knoppix in the meantime)

Cheers,
Rua HM.