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Re: squeeze on a Dell Latitude D620



On Sun 22 Jan 2012 at 16:56:14 -0700, Glenn English wrote:

> And the squeeze installer said I didn't have the pieces I needed -- it
> said something about my needing b43/ucode5.fw things. Maybe that's why
> they didn't work?
> 
> Oh! There it is. A BCM4311 is a WiFi card! I wonder why the Debian
> installer complained about 4311 when it was looking to set up eth0
> (IIRC).

d-i detects both network connections. Firmware is required for one of
them (WiFi) and it tells you so. You answer 'no' when asked to load it
and go on to configure eth0 instead.


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