On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 06:10:08PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > > I am now in midst of clean install of Debian Squeeze on my old laptop, > > from a netinst CD. > > > > Since the laptop has a Broadcom network card, before installing the base > > system, the Debian Squeeze installer says that it needs the > > tigon/tg3_tso5.bin firmware. > > The installer offers to load it from a removable storage device and I > > have a DiskOnKey which can be used for this purpose. > > > > Questions: > > 1. Where to obtain the file > > 2. And in which format?
Omer asked those two question, but later on answered them (and also provided a link to the page from the installation manual with the answer). > > I know nothing about Ubuntu, But Omer asked about Debian. > so maybe I am way off target. However, > such firmware normally comes with the kernel, e.g., > > http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.34.1/firmware/tigon/ > > What am I missing? Some ideological stance on behalf of Ubuntu Debian > that > dictates removing things from the kernel because they are binary, > etc.? What happens if you just put the files on your DoK? Read Omer's mail and see :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
