Linux-Hardware Digest #779
Linux-Hardware Digest #779, Volume #14 Wed, 16 May 01 09:13:05 EDT Contents: Re: NIC setup Please Help (Jerry W. Segers. Jr.) Re: motorola sm56 internal modem (Pavan) Re: plattengroesse (Eric) Re: Help with assigning eth0/eth1 to proper NICs (Harvey Braun) Sony Vaio FX101 (Lea Anthony) Re: PCTEL-modem Linux Driver!!! (Lea Anthony) Re: segmentation faults (ASF) ISA WANGTEK 5150EQ tape streamer - ftape (Sander van Geloven) Re: Linux and Printers (Jef Peeraer) Fax modem US Robotics 56k Message (Volker Lenhardt) Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help (Harvey Braun) Compact PCI video card (Jeffery Candiloro) Re: Anyone selling basic cheap Linux boxes? (Jef Peeraer) Re: A CPU cooler for Linux? (Kenneth Rørvik) Re: Compact PCI video card (Ben) Re: Compact PCI video card (Ben) Who uses Hercules Game Theatre XP on Linux? (Andrew Luke Nesbit) Re: plattengroesse (M. Buchenrieder) Re: SCSI errorr (Pieter Ekkebus) Re: A CPU cooler for Linux? (Nils Holland) From: Jerry W. Segers. Jr. segers_remove_this_so_it'[EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: NIC setup Please Help Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 03:29:04 -0400 man isapnp man isapnp.conf man pnpdump pnpdump to a temp file, edit it by hand, copy that to /etc/isapnp.conf. modprobe in the desired modules. confirm that they both work, edit modules.conf to auto load the drivers, RELAX! don't pop a vein ;-) In article r6HJ6.44257$[EMAIL PROTECTED], John Leita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am tring to get linux up and running with two eexpress ISA cards irq 5 and 9 io 270 and 300 respectively. during RH 6.2 installation neither card is detected i tried using netconfig two set them up. No dice on either card. RH 5.2 installation gets one card but not the other. I tried this multiple times and it will work with either card but only one. Then in 5.2 I try adding it myself by modifying /etc/conf.modules and adding all the info. Then I modified lilo.conf and ran lilo like some multi-nic web page said to. The problem when I do ifconfig eth1 it says unknown interface. In a nutshell my question is ho do I get ifconfig to acknoledge eth1 ??? PLEASE HELP!! -- From: Pavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: motorola sm56 internal modem Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:16:35 +0530 Motorola has released linux drivers for their SM56 winmodem series. Check it out here http://e-www.motorola.com/products/softmodem/ -Pavan DesertAsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... hello, im just a newbie on linux OS. I am using Red Hat 7 and is there a way to make my motorola sm56 internal modem? I hope you can help or if it wont can u tell me what modem shall i buy that can be used in any OS? -- Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/ -- From: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: plattengroesse Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:51:28 +0200 ich habe eine 10 GByte IDE-Platte, auf der eine 10 GByte- Windows 98 Partition war. Ich habe ein bischen rumgespielt, irgendwann mit Linux alle Partitionen geloescht und mit ddNullen auf die ganze Platte geschrieben. Jetzt kann ich zwar mit Linux wieder frische Partitionen anlegen und entfernen, jedoch das FDISK von Windows 98 behauptet, meine (garantiert leere !!!) Platte sei nur 479 MByte gross. Was kann da passiert sein ? My German isn't too good, so I will answer in English. If your intent is to run Windows and Linux on the same disk (platte?), That wasn't the problem. The OP used dd to clear his entire HDD. (Which is a 10G IDE) Now windows98 fdisk can only see 479 MB of this disk. So this is not a linux question, but really a windows issue. He should check BIOS settings for this disk. Windows doesn't detect disks, it uses whatever the BIOS tells it. To the OP: Such mal im BIOS nach die settings fur diesen disk. Warscheinlich detectiert das BIOS diesen disk falsch. Aendere das, so das diese disk richtig anerkent wird Eric -- From: Harvey Braun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help with assigning eth0/eth1 to proper NICs Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:29:33 GMT I had the same type of problem with 2 network cards. I had one that I wanted to use for my internal network and one for going out to a cable modem. They are both PCI but one always loaded first when I set up the machine no matter which slot I put it in. The way I got aroung it was to use Linuxconf and simply reassigne the first card from eth0 to eth1 and then the next one eth1 to eth0. When I rebooted the machine that is the way it stayed. HB In article 989960817.911602@sj-nntpcache-3, Brian Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got 2 3c509s in a my Linux box (Mandrake 8
Linux-Hardware Digest #779
Linux-Hardware Digest #779, Volume #13 Tue, 24 Oct 00 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Adaptec AIC 7896 SCSI (Mark Post)
Re: RH7 and Crystal CS4237B (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: my computer froze (Phil Schilling)
cdrecord w/Plextor 12x/4x/32x (Jeff Shipman)
Re: Linux on IBM RS/6000p-Series eServer (Mark Post)
Re: Linux on IBM RS/6000p-Series eServer (Christopher Browne)
Re: SCSI recommendation, please (Mark Post)
Re: RH7 and Crystal CS4237B (Dances With Crows)
Re: Can't Print (Dances With Crows)
How to print to Okidata Okipage 6e printer (Arctic Storm)
help with setting up an HP IID laser printer in Rehat 7 ("Phil Martinez")
Re: HELP: Boot or HD problem! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IDE Device Driver - EXT2 (hac)
Re: SCSI recommendation, please (lynx)
Does Epson EPL5700/5800 work under Linux? (Daiei V2!!)
Re: SuSE 7.0 and 3Com 3c509b (Diego Woitasen)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC 7896 SCSI
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:39:37 GMT
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 02:32:42 -0600, Jeff Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Read the howto recompiling the kernel with modules, KERNEL-HOWTO, if I
remember correctly scsi drivers as modules have to be in lilo as ramdisk
images.
If he is not trying to boot off the SCSI drive, this is not necessary. If
he is trying to boot off the SCSI drive, it would be more straightforward to
compile the support into the kernel, and not as a module. I have an Adaptec
SCSI card in my machine, as a module. In my startup scripts, I modprobe it,
and everything works fine, but I am booting off an IDE drive.
run mkinitrd and include the initrd line in your lilo.conf file. Any
hardware that is required at boot like scsi has to be loaded by initial
ramdisk to be available to the kernel.
Jeff Moore
Janis Ivanovskis wrote:
I have the subj. SCSI card, i cannot boot up RedHAT Linux 7.0. I
loaded aic7.xxx module, but anyway, it says thats scsi hosts: found 0.
Can anyone help.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: RH7 and Crystal CS4237B
Date: 25 Oct 2000 00:40:33 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to get RealPlayer audio/video streaming on my
RedHat Linux 7.0 intel system, a dual processor Dell PIII
Precision 610 with an integrated Crystal CS4237B soundchip
(soundblaster compatible).
The error message from the Real Audio 7.01 Unix player is:
"Cannot open audio device, another application may be using it"
Are you in gnome? Make sure that you check the box "start
sound server" in the gnome control panel.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Phil Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: my computer froze
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:44:03 -0500
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started to have problems with my PC last week I started to freezing on
me especially when I was on line browsing with netscape
I was running linux (red hat 6.2) since may but it newer happend before
My pc froze on me a few times last week and the worst thing about it was
when I restarted no display showed up on the monitor so I could not
troubleshoot it I tried to restart but no display again
I kept turnig the pc off and on maybe on 20th time it started to boot
the day after the same thing happen agin froze and after restart no
display no double beep ,strange ahh and this time it took maybe 30 -40
off and ons.
I thought my pc is fried but it started suddnly after
sometimes it froze at boottime at mmory check stage and I got a endless
beep.
I decided to reinstall linux which was yesterday It froze on me today
when I was editing a perlscipt and ran netscape! but no boot problem
oh and when I boot to linux I get something like
ems[386] -0.1% unknown
Ok my question is can linux actually damage a pc? whad could cause this
freezing I thught that the processor may be overheated? but I'm not sure
before it froze I heard som Hard drive activity but nothing specal and
the PC should boot without an hard drive I looked like a motherboard or
processor problem because the monitor did not start at boottime
I run linux on a separate partition but on the same disk with windows
I have Tyan tsunami 440BX board and pentium3 500 slot 1 processor
anybody experienced something like this or has some tips please reply
thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Hi,
in answer to the first question no linux can't damage a pc. I would
look at memory first. Many non starting errors are found there.
Phil
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From: Jeff Ship
Linux-Hardware Digest #779
Linux-Hardware Digest #779, Volume #12Mon, 1 May 00 14:13:09 EDT
Contents:
setting up /Win after the fact? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Have new parallel port - but it's PCI!! (Mario Klebsch)
Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux. (Mun Sing)
Re: Linux Uses Less Power? ("Gabor Z. Papp")
Re: Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux. ("Tim Prince")
Re: VGA Woes in X ("john.devoy")
Re: reliable cheap modems for linux? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E5NdRew?= yEonG)
SIIG PCI parallel Port (Ignacio Taboada "i t a b o a d a "@ u p e n n 5 . h e p . u
p e n n . e)
Number Nine SR9 video card and X ("M.A. Reid")
Re: Best Linux server components questions (Dallas Times)
Re: Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: VGA Woes in X (Tilman Kranz)
Re: setting up /Win after the fact? (Dances With Crows)
Re: SB Live help. (kricke)
Re: Newbie: Pls advise installing Dual boot Dual HD Mandrake 7 (Tilman Kranz)
IDE UDMA/33 woes... ("Justin R. Miller")
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (Michael Meissner)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: setting up /Win after the fact?
Date: 1 May 2000 15:34:03 GMT
Hi, here is my situation:
* I partitioned my harddrive with Partition magic into two partitions.
* I installed Win2000, worked on it for a week and then it crashed and
I can't recover any of the data.
* Now I've installed RH6.2 on the other partition and would like to go
into the Win2000 partition and recover the data. I.e., I'd like to
set up the /Win directory in Linux.
* Then, I'd like to reinstall Win2000 back onto the other partition.
Can this be done? If so, can anyone give me some advice/tips?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 16:03:23 GMT
On Mon, 01 May 2000 10:02:13 -0400, Gary Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael O'Reilly wrote:
This is not a Linux specific question but I do have a dual boot
Win95/RH 6.1 system. I would like to add a CD-RW drive, and I'm
wondering what the pros and cons of IDE vs. SCSI drives are. Is there
any significant adavantage of one over the other?
A couple folks have responded as though Michael asked about multiple
drives on an interface. I believe he was asking which interface
would be best for a dedicated CD-RW.
I'm also currenly looking at the issue. One of the things that is swaying
me towards SCSI is that linux (and other open unix products) support
SCSI natively. As I understand it, if you want to use an IDE CD-RW
interface, you have to tell linux that all your IDE interfaces are
SCSI and use some type of translation software (which to me is spelled
K-L-U-D-G-E).
If you're just going to be using low speed devices then Tekram
sells a $30 PCI that should fit the bill quite nicely for you.
Whether or not treating two classes of devices that are supposed
to act similarly is a kludge or not, it works well enough in
practice. There really are no significant constraints going one
way or the other with this.
I looks to me like the Adaptec 2930 fits the application fairly well.
It appears to be supported by linux and freeBSD. Its $99.00 on the
Adaptec web site.
Now all I have to do is find an external CD-RW to move amongst
systems with the 2930's that I'm planning on buying.
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/ | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mario Klebsch)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Have new parallel port - but it's PCI!!
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:12:43 +0200
Chris Rankin au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc writes:
This is the output from lspci:
00:0e.0 Class 0783: Syba Tech Ltd Multi-IO Card (rev 92) (prog-if 15)
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort-
TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at f800
I have tried to configure this port as LPT2 by setting the IRQ to 9 and
the IO to 0x278 in modules.conf.
I am not an expert on this topic, but why are you using 0x278 as
IO-Address?
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at f800
It seems prety obvious, the I/O-ports are located at 0xf800. Since you
have tried to use 0xf800, my guess would be, that the port layout is
different that for a single parallel port. It seems t
Linux-Hardware Digest #779
Linux-Hardware Digest #779, Volume #10 Fri, 16 Jul 99 13:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: What's the best graphics card for X ("Remington Informática")
isto é um teste ("Remington Informática")
SoundBlaster PCI128 (Jose Santiago)
Re: tft t55d under linux? ("Daniel Baechli")
Re: external modem drivers (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Winmodem (Johan Kullstam)
Re: isapnp error ("Majid-Nikoma")
TR-4 tapes w/ TR-5 drive? ("Jeffrey L. Taylor")
Re: UMAX Scanner ("Walter Harms")
Re: Linux hardware - what's on the cards? (wizard)
Re: Epson stylus 640 and opticpro 9336T ... hard time in Linux ? (Nikodem Kuznik)
Andrew Habgood Solved the problem ("Jason Fagan")
Re: SbLive Linux drivers and RH 6.0 (Larry Ozarow)
RH/Mandrake6.0,Compaq Proliant 1000, RAID problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crystal Soundcard under Caldera (Dew Drops)
CDRW Philips (ollivier civiol)
Removing The Virtual Desktop
Opinions? My Mylex 1100 RAID server to be. (James Culbertson)
Wireless LAN ? ("Izam-Ryan Bahrin")
Re: Sound and Mouse in Linux (Nikodem Kuznik)
Re: Help- DAT won't eject (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: STB Velocity 128 AGP (Larry Ozarow)
linux drivers for Digital camera (Drew Cutter)
From: "Remington Informática" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What's the best graphics card for X
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:12:56 -0300
esta é uma mensagem de teste.por favor,ignore-a.
Robin Shuff [EMAIL PROTECTED],no.spam escreveu nas notícias de
mensagem:m8cb3.1147$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm looking at building a basic Linux workstation and would like to know
what the best 8mb or similar graphics card to use is. One that is fully
supported and has GPL drivers etc. Is the ATI Xpert98 any good?
Thanks
Robin Shuff
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From: "Remington Informática" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: isto é um teste
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:15:26 -0300
mensagem de teste.por favor,ignore-a
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From: Jose Santiago [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SoundBlaster PCI128
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 08:35:57 -0500
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Linux without having to pay for the OSS drivers?
--
Jose Santiago
Senior Systems Analyst - Scientific Systems
Komatsu Mining Systems - Peoria Operations
2300 N.E. Adams Street
P.O. Box 240
Peoria, IL 61650-0240
Voice:309-672-7325 Fax:309-672-7753
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Senior Systems Analyst - Scientific Systems
Komatsu Mining Systems - Peoria Operations
2300 N.E. Adams Street
P.O. Box 240
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From: "Daniel Baechli" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tft t55d under linux?
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:12:05 +0200
[...]
David Fox wrote:
Can someone explain DFP and PD to me? All I know is that my SGI
all-digital monitor is supported under XFree86, I don't see why others
couldn't be in principal. The question is whether the support exists.
Check out
TFT Guide, Part 3 - Digital Interfaces
http://www5.tomshardware.com/releases/99q3/990707/index.html
for an overview of the digital interfaces.
With IBM's current interest in Linux I expect support should be
forthcoming. A few phone calls might help.
As far as I know IBM does not undertake any efforts to make this
TFT-monitor a supported one under linux.
DBaechli
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From: Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: external modem drivers
Date: 16 Jul 1999 09:36:49 -0400
"James Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi can anyone tell me if Caldera Openlinux2.2 supplies drivers for
USRobotics external modems, if not where can obtain them? cheers Jim
Holt
yes. there are serial port drivers for every linux system since
nearly the beginning of time.
--
johan kullstam
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From: Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Winmodem
Date: 16 Jul 1999 09:39:13 -0400
"Bryan Panella" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stupid question: Is there no way to get a WInmodem to work under Linux (Red
Hat 6 specifically)?
no.
I know it is not supported direct but maybe there is an add-on package or
driver which can make them work?
no.
Oh well. I didn't
Linux-Hardware Digest #779
Linux-Hardware Digest #779, Volume #9Fri, 19 Mar 99 21:14:23 EST
Contents:
Hardware drivers... and a lot more! (Dutch Hardware Driver Page® (
www.nhdp.nl/english/ ))
My mouse is screwed. (Travers Nicholas)
Re: Linux and 486 ("Tom Emerson")
partition (Xu Chun)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Steve
Russell)
Re: HP 2100 and ghostscript (wizard)
cdwriter acard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Almost There, Please Help! (John Thrasher)
SCSI 68pin to 50pin, possible? (John Walstra)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Bill Anderson)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(jedi)
$2500.00 DREAM machine (dsyates)
Re: can't get dial tone on modem (GM)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Gateway G6-350? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "Select the application, and then the platform" (Ed Bruce)
Re: Can I use a Lexmark 3200 under Linux? ("Paul Simard")
Re: "Select the application, and then the platform" ("Todd Bandrowsky")
Re: Pin outs for parallel port zip drive cable? (Kyle Dansie)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dutch Hardware Driver Page® ( www.nhdp.nl/english/ ))
Subject: Hardware drivers... and a lot more!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:25:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, may i suggest you visit the
"Dutch Hardware and Drivers Page" by NHDP v.o.f.?
It's located at: http://www.nhdp.nl/english/
You'll find..
- links to (almost) all hardware drivers, all brands supported;
- free email account(s);
- a monthly newsletter;
- free clasified ads;
- hardware-troubleshoot;
- Where the Computer-sales are*;
- add your page/site to NHDP "Surf Select"*;
- Worldwide survey computer-shops*;
and a lot more!
Using Windows?
Visit now: www.nhdp.nl/english/
(*=coming soon)
--
Kind regards,
Dutch Hardware and Drivers Page®
http://www.nhdp.nl/english/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (correspondence)
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From: Travers Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: My mouse is screwed.
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:25:06 GMT
I'm running Slackware distribution, and my Xserver is running sweet as.
However, whenever i quit out of Quake, back into the server, The mouse
goes haywire.
Originally I was having problems with my mouse in quake, untill i added
this line to SVGAlib; mouse IMPS2. In case you hadn't noticed, i have a
ps2 intellimouse, and i believe the problem will be resolved if i can
specify my mouse type as IMPS2 within the Xserver. I just don't know how
to do this. Can anyone help?.
at present i have my mouse setup as PS2, as intellimouse, and microsoft
mouse wouldn't work. Any help on this matter will be greatly
appreciated.
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From: "Tom Emerson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux and 486
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:25:09 GMT
Bob Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article
__iG2.8068$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Tom Emerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At our user group meeting last night, the presenter was using two of
them
to demonstrate firewalls, IP masquarading, DNS, and so on. Our area
has
recently been blessed with both cable and DSL access for 75%+ of the
area
residents, so everyone's been asking him "how do I..."
A 486-66 w/8meg, text only, is perfectly suited for this type of thing
--
throw two "cheap" NIC's in it [isa slots only], and you have an instant
firewall that can easilly handle T1 speed connections
^^^
I think not. An old ISA nic card on a 486 will be damned lucky to do
200KB/sec in the configuration you discribe. Expect some serious
slowdowns
on the boxes inside the 486linux firewall. This setup MIGHT be ok for
slower dailup on even ISDN but not with DLS or cable modems. I'm frankly
tired of hearing about this myth (probably started with success on dialup
connections) and have NEVER seen any data to support these old ISA 486's
keeping up with the 200KBytes/per second transfers often seen with cable
modems DSL.
Since a regular 10-BASE-T/2 LAN is 10 megaBITS/second, by your implication
above, a 486 would have never "worked" in a LAN environment in the first
place... ("T1" is only 1.5 megabits/second, or about 8 times SLOWER than a
LAN in the first place)
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Get a P133 or with (=32Megs)
for
this task and use PCI nic's.
True, this would be better -- you could probably then "do stuff" on this
system, but the idea here is to have a closet device -- something you can
tuck away and never [or very rarely] have to "get to it". Consider a
commercial dedicated router/firewall/print-server/etc and you'll see this
is basically the same thing -- a small box with only the needed ports (LA
