Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

[Bruno Costacurta <techie@costacurta.org>]

Hi Andrew,
thanks for infos about Broadcom being in non-free.

I tried the unofficial image you mentionned.
However got same problem : the Ethernet Broadcom card is not recognized.
I suppose it is not include in this unofficial netinst CD.

From there possible solutions looks like :

- does exist other unofficial image which included Broadcom drivers ?
- complete the installation using an official image (so without  
network connection), and after manually install the Broadcom driver  
(eg.via USB key). If this is possible how / where can iI grab the  
Broadcom driver ? eg.via file module .ko or via a Debian package ?
- other solutions ?

Thanks for your attention.

Bye,
Bruno

Quoting Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>:

> Hi Bruno,
>
> Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > I bought an Acer (model 4750) and tried to install on it Squeeze  
> > image i386 CD-ROM.
> > During the network hardware detection the Ethernet card Broadcom  
> > (model Netlink BCM57785) is not recognized (note : I identified  
> > this model using an Ubuntu 11.04 live DVD).
> > I suppose it is simply not included in the Squeeze image i386 CD-Rom I used.
>
> First off, Debian's position on non-free is here [1].
>
> > My questions is does Debian propose a package supporting Ethernet  
> > card Broadcom BCM57785 ? If yes is there an image containing it  
> > (eg. CD versus DVD images packages list) ?
>
> Yes, try here [2] -- unofficial ....  multi-arch covers 32 and 64  
> bit, so if you really only want the 32 bit version, choose the right  
> link.
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#nonfree
>
> [2]  
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/6.0.2.1/multi-arch/iso-cd/
> &
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/6.0.2.1/i386/iso-cd/
>
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> AndrewM
>
> Andrew McGlashan