I've installed Smoothwall on 486's, P166's with various RealTek and 3com cards never had a problem.
Which release are you using? Regards Jason On Wednesday 27 November 2002 09:17, you wrote: > I decided to try my hand at making a home firewall/gateway. SmoothWall > seemed to be the distro of choice. I had two computers that were likely > candidates for the job an IBM Aptiva P166 and a Packard Bell P90. Both > still very serviceable. I also have a small collection of Linux-proven > NIC's that I thought would work just fine in this application. > > After several attempts on these two boxes, I ended up picking up a Dell > Pentium 233. This computer also seems to not want to take to installing > SmoothWall. I have checked the SmoothWall site for hardware compatibility > and the NIC's for the most part appear to be supported. Here's a list of > what I have and the Linux driver module typically used: > > PCI > RealTek 8139 10/100 - rtl8139 > RealTek 8129 10 BaseT - ne2k-pc / ne2k / ne > SMC EtherPower - tulip > > ISA > Intel EtherExpress 16 - eexpress > 3Com ?? - ?? > > All three computers will get to the Green NIC probe phase and fail. The > probe will not autodetect the cards. I have gone into manual mode and given > it the appropriate module, IO and IRQ. All to no avail. These cards have > all worked under Windows not very long ago and some have even run perfectly > fine under other distributions of Linux. I am very careful with my hardware > so I cannot believe that they could all be bad. > > The ISO I used for burning my SmoothWall disc was checked against the MD5 > Checksum and it was verified. > > I cannot believe that three computers would all refuse to take this install > with various NIC's in place. I enlisted Marcel's help and he could not > overcome my install issues either. We're both stymied. > > Anyone have any experience they'd like to share or any advice? Thanks in > advance. > > As an aside, we even attempted to throw OpenBSD on one of the boxes and it > crapped out almost immediately. We were pretty tired at this point so we > did not delve too deeply into this install. It was a floppy/FTP install. > > Jarrod Major > CLUG Treasurer > Registered Linux User: #224211
