On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
JD Austin wrote:
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> Laurence J. Peter  - "It's better to have loved and lost than to have to
> do forty pounds of laundry a week."
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> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Patrick Jacques
> <patrick@kinetic-computing.net <mailto:patrick@kinetic-computing.net>>
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>     On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Patrick Jacques
>     <patrick@kinetic-computing.net
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>>         Also, which version of smoothwall are you working with?
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> It is smoothwall version 3.0 sp1.
> I also tried ipcop but it couldn't see the cdrom it was booting from,
> pfsense didn't detect the cards either.
> Mandriva 2009 LiveCD worked just fine.
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> JD Austin
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Sometimes (older systems in particular) it helps to use nodma kernel
option to get installs to recognize a CDRom.

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I gave up trying to get smoothwall to compile in the drivers... I eventually stumbled on another Linux based firewall distribution that works! 
Endian Community Firewall: http://efwsupport.com/
I still have to hack in changes to DHCP to deal with setting a tftp server like I did with smoothwall but it's looking good so far :)

JD
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