I can confirm the problem. I have a broadcom as ethernet card and the debian-installer system does not recognize it 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01) Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: 05/07/2010 Machine: Acer travelmate 5740