Missing firmware file when installing Debian Squeeze on my laptop

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> writes:

>> I know nothing about Ubuntu, 
>
> But Omer asked about Debian.

Hmm... I was still at work, so I couldn't be drunk... The only
reasonable conclusion is that I should work less... Omer - apologies.

I remember using those tg drivers in the past so I was surprised to
hear of the need to load firmware from external media. I never had to
do anything like that installing Linux, and I always thought it was a
Windows "feature" (fond memories of, e.g., QLogic HBA firmware are
quietly melting away to a melancholic tune). I find|grepped the kernel
source to check my sanity and it was there...

So, it's a Debian thing then? They remove such stuff from the kernel -
even though it is in the vanilla tree - because it is binary? Right?

Can one install Debian on a computer with such a card if the firmware
needs to be downloaded (i.e., there is no DoK with it and it is not on
the instalation media) and there is no other computer to access the
net with? Just curious.

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