works for me with realtek, 3com and NE2000..... At the begining I dident
understud the instruction. Read carefully !! UNPLUG all network cables, then
press A to autedetect, then plug only ONE cable, then press enter.

Federico

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Wallberg" <dennis dot wallberg at bredband dot net>
To: "Quark AV - Hilton Travis" <Hilton at QuarkAV dot com>
Cc: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] No Link-up Detected


> Quark AV - Hilton Travis wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Andrew Eglington [mailto:aeglington at hotmail dot com]
> >>Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:14
> >>To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> >>Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] No Link-up Detected
> >>
> >>I was installing (smirk, like booting from CD is an
> >>'install' - I love it!).. installing a first time m0n0
> >>tonight and also came up against this problem of it
> >>saying the link is not detected, despite it clearly
> >>being plugged in.
> >>Does 'no link up detected' mean the card thinks it's
> >>not plugged in? surely it doesnt relate to the subnet
> >>being in a different range? (because mine was at the
> >>time - default m0n0 = 192.168.. and PC set to 172.16..)
> >>I'm not sure what I did, which likely means its just
> >>m0n0 being a bit buggy, but after trying auto the usual
> >>'few times', i went to manually assign and noticed
> >>"link up" (or whatever the wording is) indicated next
> >>to the card I was about to assign as LAN... so
> >>evidently it decided to see it in this manual context.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I have performed quite a few m0n0wall installs, and have never seen the
> >"auto detect" actually work, no matter what network cards I have had in
the
> >machines.  If anyone here has actually had an "auto detect" find their
NIC,
> >please let us know.
> >
> >I have a funny feeling this feature is broken, and if so, we may as well
ask
> >Manuel to remove it from the options - if it never works, then why have
it
> >there to confuse people?
> >
> >
> >
>
> It sure worked for me, 3x 3com NIC (xl driver)
>
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