Didn't Smoothwall fork? I can't remember the new name, but it seems to me they did. If so, you might try the fork.
Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:17 AM Subject: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help > 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 > > >
