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? The URL http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch06s04.html.en contains the needed information. I downloaded (using my desktop PC) the zip file firmware.zip from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/squeeze/current/ and according to dpkg -I, the package firmware-linux-nonfree_0.25_all.deb, contained in the ZIP file, contains the needed file. This answers the first question - where to obtain the missing firmware file. Copying firmware-linux-nonfree_0.25_all.deb to the root directory of a DiskOnKey and inserting the DiskOnKey into one of the USB ports in the laptop, when requested by the installer, solved the problem. This answers the second question - in which format to present the missing firmware file to the installer. --- Omer -- You haven't made an impact on the world before you caused a Debian release to be named after Snufkin. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
