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| Thread ID: 37103 | 2003-08-28 12:55:00 | 486dx boot problems // Smoothwall firewall - help !!! | PoWa (203) | Press F1 |
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| 171249 | 2003-08-29 10:45:00 | Thanks for all the replies everyone, most helpful :) especially whetu - I'm somewhat much more knowledgeable on smoothwall with that huge post :D I've managed to fix the floppy drive read error. You guys were right, the stupid cable was in the wrong way, upside down and using the wrong connector. As it happens the floppy drive ide cable (very old one) has 2 connectors that will fit into the drive. That means 4 different combinations I could put the stupid thing in - upside down, other connector etc. I was using the wrong connector in this case - *groan*. So anyway thats working fine now, and I loaded up the smoothwall boot disk which started to go through the install and it loaded the cd fine. Then it gets to the part where it detects the Network cards in my computer - and it won't detect the ones I've put in! ARRGH!! I've got like 15 isa NICs (about 5 different varieties), sitting around here, and the ones that are in at the moment were the ones that got detected fine on the 386 computer. So I don't know what the hecks going on. Ideas anyone? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 171250 | 2003-08-29 10:49:00 | I forgot to mention, I got a black permanent marker and wrote on the ide cable for the hard drive, and floppy "Goes in this way -> " :D | PoWa (203) | ||
| 171251 | 2003-08-29 14:10:00 | "Then it gets to the part where it detects the Network cards in my computer - and it won't detect the ones I've put in! ARRGH!! I've got like 15 isa NICs (about 5 different varieties), sitting around here, and the ones that are in at the moment were the ones that got detected fine on the 386 computer. So I don't know what the hecks going on. Ideas anyone?" Check there isnt a resource conflict, try cleaning the golden fingers of the cards with a pencil eraser, read the smoothwall documentation where it will tell you how to manually load a module for the cards, or if the mobo is fortunate enough to be equipped with PCI slots, then get some DSE NICs... |
whetu (237) | ||
| 171252 | 2003-08-30 03:25:00 | If you've got any 3Com or WD/SMC cards use them. They are the best, have been in the business longer than anyone else, and have the best support in Linux (probably because the guy who wrote most of the netwrok card drivers worked for NASA then, and NASA used quality gear.). (There is one 3Com -- 3C508, I think -- which is bad news, but that's an 8bit card, so you rpobably haven't got one of them :D). Intel cards should be supprted right off, too. Others depend on whether they have been "popular". DSE cards might be fine, but I think we're dealing with ISA cards here. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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