re: Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

[Vincent McIntyre <Vince.McIntyre@atnf.csiro.au>]

I think this was fixed very recently, if you look back at the traffic
in http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/07

The installer should at least prompted you to supply a .fw firmware file.
Did it do this?
The firmware can be obtained from the firmware-* packages, e.g.
  http://packages.debian.org/firmware-bnx2.

See also these bugs for a bit more background.
  http://bugs.debian.org/492246
  http://bugs.debian.org/491712

If this isn't fixed for you in a recent daily image could you explain more 
about your hardware (e.g. lspci -knn output).

Cheers
Vince