Quoting 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). Still, it would be interesting to have you test the image I pointed above, of course, without the extra NIC....in order to se whether the Broadcom card is properly detected (kernel changed in the installer since the image you tried). It's quite likely that it might not work still but we could have a more accurate picture. No need to go further the network card being detected: either it is or it isn't. So, the test can be non destructive if you already installed the machine.
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