[wellylug] 386 firewall/router help

Lindsay Hunter klhunter at paradise.net.nz
Tue Apr 22 14:33:28 NZST 2003


I use Coyote Linux  which will have no difficulty with the NIC.  See it 
on www.coyotelinux.com

I have less experience withj a dial;up modem.

L

Klenner, Colin wrote:

>I have acquired a 386sx Acer - nice little box. Very quiet. 
>It has 5MB RAM and 120Mb HDD, 1.44 FDD. 
>It has 2 x ISA slots so I can put a modem in one and a NE2000 compat NIC in
>the other.
>
>Which I did.
>
>It has Win 3.11 on the HDD so I verified everything else worked, the modem I
>have from another working PC.
>
>I tried Freesco 0.26, 0.27 and 0.30 versions. First and last lock up during
>boot when they get to the 'loading packages' messge.
>0.27 boots well, not problem, detects modem, even can boot of the HDD
>easily.
>
>Problem is that it looks for an Ne-compat card on a PCI slot! 
>I can't figure out how to change the NIC driver or reconfigure it to look at
>ISA instead.
>
>Any ideas or anything else suitable I can use? That I do not have to spend
>hours downloading?
>
>~~~
>Colin
>Reply to: colink at clear.net.nz
>
>  
>





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