It appears that this driver has been replaced by one called tg3. They mention it in the bug report.
I did some "googling" around and found several things. First of all, tg3 was removed from the kernel in Lenny because the code wasn't openly available.
I do, however, have the solution for your problem (and it's much easier than our previous attempt). You have two options:
1. Keep lenny, and install a newer kernel (by manually downloading it from the debian lenny backports website) along with the packages firmware-linux, firmware-linux-free and firmware-linux-nonfree (the last one includes the tg3 driver, so your NIC should work upon rebooting after installing all these packages). To implement this solution do the following:
Go to http://packages.debian.org/search?keywo ... lla-search
Take your pick of the kernel you want (I suppose you'll probably be interested in either linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 or linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 depending on your processor and OS architecture).
Go here http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backpo ... ux-nonfree and here http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backpo ... linux-free (note that the first one has a list of the binary drivers it includes, this list contains tg3). Download these to packages.
Once you are able to carry your packages to your Dell vostro (using a usb key or something like this), you install them using:
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su
dpkg -i packagename1.deb packagename2.deb packagename3.deb
2. Use Squeeze. You will only need to manually get firmware-linux-nonfree from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firm ... ux-nonfree and install it with dpkg. Upon reboot it should work.
Hope everything goes smoothly now.
Cheers