Missing firmware file when installing Debian Squeeze on my laptop

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at 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?

I know nothing about Ubuntu, 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 that
dictates removing things from the kernel because they are binary,
etc.? What happens if you just put the files on your DoK?

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Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org