Hey Guys, Just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that I got IPCop downloaded, verified and installed. Recognized the cards right off the bat. Your guess is as good as mine as to why the SmoothWall install failed.
Anyway, wanted to report a success. The end config is as follows: Dell P233 64 Mb SDRAM 1 Gb HD SMC Ethernet 10BaseT NIC RealTek 8139 10/100BaseT NIC Red & Green setup Now the fun of phasing out my old Gateway... Jarrod Major CLUG Treasurer Registered Linux User: #224211 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help > Hey Kev, > > It appears that they have been patching it. I'm not sure when the last patch > was posted but I do have all the ones that needed to be applied to > SmoothWall. I think I will have to give IPcop a go for sure. It seems that > these guys have taken the torch and run with it. > > I'll post my results to the list. > > Thanks again guys! > > Jarrod > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:56 PM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help > > > > The fork is called IPcop. > > > > I haven't done much more than see either, but it might help. Smoothwall > GPL > > seemed old, the last time I checked. Not that that is a bad thing, but it > > made me worry that they weren't really supporting it anymore. > > > > Kev. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:40 AM > > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
