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Hi Melvin, On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:19, Melvin Backus wrote: > At 07:14 PM 2/2/2004, Hilton Travis wrote: > >Hi Ben, > > > >O! How I love Microsoft's version of text. Even more than I love html > >email. :( > > > >On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 08:42, Ben Carlisle wrote: > > > Folks, > > > Spent some time scouring the archive with no results. > > > > > > I am trying to setup m0n0wall on an old piece of hardware, a PI/166. > > I have two ISA NICs in the box, both of which are NE2k-compats (they're > > even the same model). I have FreeBSD 4.8 installed on the box, and when I > > boot my normal kernel, I can detect them both (although I did have to > > recompile the GENERIC kernel to add device ed1). > > > > > > However, when I boot m0n0wall (from CD), everything boots fine and I > > get the console menu. I select option 1, expecting to assign my NICs, and > > the list of 'Valid interfaces' is empty! I tried entering ed0 and ed1 but > > neither worked. (Invalid interface name). Scrolling up in the dmesg, I > > get a message that says "Initializing PC cards ... failed. (probably no > > PC card controller present)" Might this have something to do with it? > > > > > > Now, I'm very new to both FreeBSD and m0n0wall. I'm hoping it is a > > drastic oversight on my part. But I cannot find any references to this > > stuff in existing documentation. Does anyone have any idea what is going > > on here, or have some things I can try? Again, I'm a newbie to this stuff > > so I would greatly appreciate any assistance. > > > >ISA NICs are not supported, it seems. 3Com 3C09 ISA NICs (the best ISA > >NICs ever made) aren't supported, so I assume no ISA NICs are supported. > > Actually I was able to get my 3c509b combo card to work under m0n0 by > setting it in plug-n-play mode. The drivers are there, but they don't > normally get detected. Can't speak for the other variants though. I was > disappointed myself when support for these started dropping off. I've got > buckets of them, and they work great for DSL/cable connections. A 10/100 > card is just a waste for that connection. Very interesting. I default all my 3C509 NICs to run at a fixed address, and disable PnP on them. This is the way many Linux firewalls need these cards to be configured - including SmoothWall. I will soon try to configure a m0n0wall with some 3C509 NICs running in PnP mode and confirm this works. I hope it does - these NICs are as reliable as all hell, and abundant. I also happen to have about 25 of them here in a box. :) -- Regards, Hilton Travis Email: Hilton at QuarkAV dot com Manager, Quark AudioVisual Phone: +61-(0)7-3343-3889 Quark Computers Phone: +61-(0)419-792-394 (Brisbane, Australia) http://www.QuarkAV.com/ Open Source Projects: http://www.ares-desktop.org/ http://www.mamboband.org/ Non Linear Video Editing Solutions & Digital Audio Workstations Network Administration, SmoothWall Firewalls, NOD32 AntiVirus Conference and Seminar AudioVisual Production and Recording War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. |