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Offline innominate

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Broadcom 57xx ( BCM5755M ) issue on Dell D830 laptop
« on: August 08, 2012, 01:01:20 AM »
Hi, I'm trying to boot TC on a Dell Latitude D830.  Everything seems to work okay except that TC doesn't recognize the NIC, i.e. there's only a loopback device, no eth0.

The NIC in this case appears to be a Broadcom BCM5755M.  Any suggestions before I start playing with NDISwrapper or otherwise heading down the wrong path would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Broadcom 57xx ( BCM5755M ) issue on Dell D830 laptop
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2012, 01:21:25 AM »
Is this one that needs firmware to be loaded?

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Re: Broadcom 57xx ( BCM5755M ) issue on Dell D830 laptop
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2012, 04:31:33 AM »
Thanks Juanito, that was it.  It required firmware-broadcom.tcz.

I originally poked around in that file but only saw 802 references to 802.11* and figured it was just for wireless cards.