Bug#352758: -- installation: "etch" installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

[Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:43:59AM EST, Frans Pop wrote:

> On Sunday 17 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Could you try to find out if the firmware is non-free?
> > Could it be included in the debian-archive?

> In unstable it looks to be included in the firmware-linux-free package, but 
> with a changed extension:

> http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=3CCFEM556&mode=filename&suite=unstable&arch=any
> 
> Note that that file is based on the 2.6.32 kernel, not on the 2.6.30 kernel 
> used in current versions of the installer for Squeeze.
> 
> The fact that it does not exist in testing or stable could mean that the 
> firmware is included in the module, but maybe not.

Since I have the hardware available and you probably don't, would you
need me to download and test an unstable or experimental install in this
respect?

If so, please provide a link where I could download an installer that
might provide the firmware in one form of another.

Thanks,

CJ