installing 11.10 on my computer: cannot load firmware file error - bnx2 firmware missing

Asked by niels van Oijen

i cant install ubuntu 11.10 on my computer, it says that something got terminated by signal 9 (killed)

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niels van Oijen (nielsvanoijen) said :
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delance (olivier-delance) said :
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Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII.
http://www.piperault.net/tag/bnx2/ in French!
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-bnx2_0.28_all.deb
ar xv firmware-bnx2_0.28_all.deb
tar xf data.tar.gz
Go to folder « lib/firmware » and copy folder bnx2 on a USB key

Start with Debian CD with USB key plugged on server.

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niels van Oijen (nielsvanoijen) said :
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the link you gave doesn't work.

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> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 18:51:06 +0000
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> Your question #177255 on ubiquity in Ubuntu changed:
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> delance proposed the following answer:
> Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII.
> http://www.piperault.net/tag/bnx2/ in French!
> wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-bnx2_0.28_all.deb
> ar xv firmware-bnx2_0.28_all.deb
> tar xf data.tar.gz
> Go to folder « lib/firmware » and copy folder bnx2 on a USB key
>
> Start with Debian CD with USB key plugged on server.
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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said :
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