Missing firmware file when installing Debian Squeeze on my laptop

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 06:10:08PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> 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?

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 :-)

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