It can't find either module via modprobe :(
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Patrick Jacques <
patrick@kinetic-computing.net> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Smoothwall might be trying to use sk98lin for the DGE card, but have you
> tried the sky2 module? Or vise-versa, try removing/disabling sky2 or
> sk98lin, whichever one smoothwall is detecting & trying on boot. The
> Nextreme (broadcom) uses the tg3 driver. Are you able to switch to another
> virtual console to 'modprobe sky2 && modprobe tg3' before the network
> configuration section? Also, which version of smoothwall are you working
> with? I noticed fixes for tg3 in recent releases.
>
>
>
>
>
> Sir Light wrote:
>
> *waves to JD*
>
> I have a server from ebay for REAL cheap. It is a Compaq DL380 G2 that is now running my firewall(IPCop) that I got for $65. It has a pair of pIII cpus, a gig of memory and a pair of 36gigs HD(using just one of them) You might want to try there.
>
> IPCop installed just great on it. I then restored the configuration that I saved from my old firewall box.
>
> Jon
>
> ---- JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
>
>
> 10 years ago I used to recompile kernels almost every day to get it to
> support the hardware I had, now days it is a rarety. I'm scheduled to
> install the firewall on Friday but I've sent the better part of 3 days
> building and rebuilding smoothwall to try to get it to support the network
> cards in a Dell T105 server. In their infinite wisdom they won't let you
> proceed with the install until you've configured at least one network card.
> Mandriva 2009 shows them as NetXtreme BCM5722 gigabit PCI Express (card on
> MB) and DGE-560T Ethernet Adapter (PCIe X1).
>
> I have the source for both drivers (sk98lin for both). I'm about to give up
> and try to find a dual nic intel card that will fit in this machine
> (supposedly supported).
> This machine only has 1 3.3v pci slot, 1 PCIeX1, and 2 PCIeX8 slots.
> Who might carry such a network card in town (Fry's only has a Dlink card
> DGE-560T above)?
> --
> JD Austin
> Twin Geckos Technology Services LLCjd@twingeckos.com
> 480.288.8195x201http://www.twingeckos.com
>
>
> Laurence J. Peter - "It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do
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>
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