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Re: debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst included installer can not detect network hardware



On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:11:20AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> This is not true for most Broadcom Netxtreme controllers supported by
> the tg3 driver, and certainly not for the chip in this machine
> (BCM5751M).
> 
> You may be thinking of the Broadcom Netxtreme II and IIx controllers
> supported by the bnx2 and bnx2x drivers.  Those are mostly found in
> servers.

Hmm, you may be right.  I forgot there was a '2' in the one that required
the firmware to work at all.  It has been a while since I installed
those machines.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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