Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Bruno, On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 07:06:21PM +0200, 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

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:19:15 +1000, Geoff Simmons wrote: Hi Bruno, On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 07:06:21PM +0200, 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

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Bruno Costacurta
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

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
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

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/09/11 03:06, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, 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

SOLVED : support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Bruno Costacurta
... My questions is does Debian propose a package supporting Ethernet card Broadcom BCM57785 ? For device support during and after Debian installation, you would need to use an unofficial installer (containing a backported Linux kernel) at this time, see [1] for further details. For an

Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-17 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, 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

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
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