Recently my NT server which contained the gateway for my network
connection to cable modem died. I am attempting to set up a Mandrake 7.0
(Air) box to act as a firewall and router. The computer in question is
an HP Pavilion 200 mmx Pentium with 32 MB of ram and a 4+gb drive. The
connection to the Cable Modem is a 3c509b (eth0) and the network card
for my internal network is a Genius GE2500III (windows and another
redhat box use the realtek 8129 drivers) (eth1).
Both ethx cards fail during startup, I can do an insmod on the 3c509
driver and get it running as eth0, but I cannot get the eth1 card up at
all. Lothar shows only 1 card and calls it a realtek 8029 and says that
it is
running, the 3c509 is not shown.
I have attempted to compile a fresh kernel in hopes of getting both
cards to work, but have been unable, even though I have loaded all the
development modules. when i go to "/usr/src/linux" and do a "make
xconfig, or make menuconfig" I get a message saying "make: *** No rule
to make target `xconfig'. Stop"
I had planned to use this computer as a firewall and network server, but
I am dead in the water until I can solve the ehternet modules problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance
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James Mellema, CRNA MA
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