Hi Bruno, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
thanks for infos about Broadcom being in non-free.
I think I didn't give the best specific advice -- that seems to be to use 6.0.3 when it comes out as the kernel will have the right driver. That or use a backports version.
In the past with some servers ... I've had broadcom network devices and those were able to be used with non-free firmware. It looks like other advice for your particular NIC is in order, ie using an alternate *not* non-free driver, tg3 in this case.
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 ?
Read the other posts, Geoff's and Camaleón's they have good answers / info too.
Thanks for your attention.
You are welcome. Cheers A.