Hey Doug, Jason, Kevin and Graham, I am using SmoothWall GPL 0.9.9 SE and I have the patches for it as well. Yes I believe it has been forked but this is the most recent stable GPL version. There is a beta but I wanted to stay away from that for now.
Kevin I believe the Fork is one they are charging for so I don't think that will do. If you find something that is still GPL let me know. Yes, we had tried setting SmoothWall up with only one NIC in at a time to see if we could isolate it. This also did not work. Thanks for the link Doug, I may try LRP but I wanted something robust enough to handle some tricky stuff. The P90 and P166 only have about 32Mb RAM so I'm not sure if they would be able to run LRP. The P233 has 64MB and appears to be a more likely candidate. I may check this out. Good questions and suggestions guys. BTW, Graham, I too have heard that RealTek's can be flaky but I have used them in all my computers and they seem to work fine. If you want to check your DLink card to find out whether it is a RealTek card it should be fairly obvious, the chip should have rtl followed by either 8129 or 8139 on it for the 10BaseT or 10/100BaseT respectively. I know that some cards by a particular manufacturer spontaneously change chipmakers during the course of a NIC card's lifespan. It starts out as a RealTek then they get something else. So when you think you using a card that has good Linux support for a particular chipset and the manufacturer changes you are hooped. I always check my hardware. The better support sites not only list the hardware but even go so far as to list chipsets to offset this issue. Jarrod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Monk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:19 AM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help > Jarrod Major 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 > > > > > > > > > Hi Jarrod > I fear I may make myself look stupid here but anyway, > I had problems with smoothwall myself using Dlink cards > which are supposed to use realtek chips but do something weird > with them. I found that startec S100 works well. > Suggestion,.... Try installing with only one card ( first one then the > other) > This should at least isolate which card is causing problems, assuming > this is not something you have allready tried. > Graham > > >
