Re: SmartLink Modem (Linux)

[ant skelton <ant@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 11 January 2001 18:08, you wrote:
> I finally got it sorted out last night. The BIOS was trying to assign
IRQ
> 248(!) to the modem - or at least that's what linux was reporting.
Anyway,
> a different motherboard sorted it out.
>
> I'm using the Linux Router Project (LRP) distribution. Not 100%
working
> yet, but it looks pretty good. It runs off a single floppy; no hard
disk
> required! See www.linuxrouter.org for more info.

I use that at home, and on the whole, it rocks. Couple of caveats tho - out
of the box, it comes with a bazillion ipchains rules, which I threw away
and
replaced with about 5 of my own. The other annoyance (more a mobo/BIOS
issue
tho) is that if there's a power cut, I have to hunt around for a keyboard
and
fiddle about round the back of the rack plugging it in so that I can press
F2
in order for the 486 to boot ;).

ant
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