Matthew K Poer wrote:
On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD.
I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly
detect my network hardware.
The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as
well as the module for my wireless card (bcm43xx), yet "lcpcia" does not
show my wireless card.
This card also requires non-free firmware that needs to be extracted
from any number of sources, including the Windows driver bcmwl5.sys
file, the Mac OS X Airport Extreme driver, or the various Linux/MIPS
drivers that have come from router vendors' "GPL release" tarballs
(generally called something like wl_apsta.o)
The bcm43xx-fwcutter tool facilitates this task, I don't know how or if
that will work with the debian-installer however, because that software
is in 'contrib' and not 'main'.
Andrew
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