Re: SmartLink Modem (Linux)

[Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxx>]

Are you sure you can't tell the bios to ignore all startup errors ?

Jeff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "ant skelton" <ant@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] SmartLink Modem (Linux)


> 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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