Matthew K Poer wrote:
On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD. I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly detect my network hardware. The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as well as the module for my wireless card (bcm43xx), yet "lcpcia" does not show my wireless card.
This card also requires non-free firmware that needs to be extracted from any number of sources, including the Windows driver bcmwl5.sys file, the Mac OS X Airport Extreme driver, or the various Linux/MIPS drivers that have come from router vendors' "GPL release" tarballs (generally called something like wl_apsta.o)
The bcm43xx-fwcutter tool facilitates this task, I don't know how or if that will work with the debian-installer however, because that software is in 'contrib' and not 'main'.
Andrew