Bug#587658: Installer Bug Report

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

On 09/08/2010 11:29 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> tags 587658 moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Quoting Kent West (westk@acu.edu):
>
>    
> > Won't recognize the Broadcom BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe device (although lspci does). I found this bug:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574888
> >
> > which indicates the problem will be fixed when the installer uses the linux-2.6.32-11 kernel. I don't know how to find an installer that uses this kernel, so in the meanwhile, I have a totally useless brand new computer. Any help?
> >      
>
> (July 1st)
>
> Please try using a *daily build* from
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer and choose the *netboot*
> image (not netinst).
>
>    

Thank you for the response.

I put a PCI NIC in the box temporarily, just long enough to get around 
the installation and to the point where I could get the built-in 
BCM57780 working (albeit I still have to manually tweak the boot process 
every time I boot to get it to work (rmmod tg3; modprobe broadcom; 
modprobe tg3; ifup eth0).



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