[NTLUG:Discuss] Formatting a floppy with ext3,

[Stuart Johnston]

Wayne Dahl wrote:
 >
> Ok, this worked.  Thanks Kyle.  Now, I have a different problem.  I have
> successfully been able to transfer the driver files to the Smoothwall
> box to /tmp (the install is so minimal, it doesn't even have mkdir to
> create a netdrivers directory, as the Linksys instructions recommend), I
> untarred them, then ran into another snag when running make.  I get an
> error that make does not exist.  How minimal can you get???  What if I
> decided to recompile the kernal?  It doesn't appear I could.  I'm
> leaning more and more to another firewall.  This is a ridiculous amount
> of work just get the damned thing installed, much less configured.

I think it would be unusual for a firewall system to have the compilers 
and kernel headers needed to compile drivers.  That would be far from 
'minimal'.  You are generally expected to compile on another system, if 
you need to.  I'm not familiar enough with smoothwall to know how you 
would do this.

Which version of Smoothwall are you using?  Version 2.0Beta seems to be 
based on Redhat 8.0 so you might be able to get binary drivers that you 
could copy.  (BTW, it is correct about using the tulip driver).

I also found some references in the Smoothwall mailing list and support 
forum suggesting that the Linksys cards work fine with Smoothwall 1.0 
but not with 2.0 so that may be your problem.  Also, is it possible that 
your card is just broken?

http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.smoothwall.general/9542/match=linksys
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.smoothwall.general/1873/match=linksys+tulip

If you do decide to look for something different, here's a few I know of:

http://leaf.sourceforge.net/
http://freesco.net/
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mnf

Good Luck!
Stuart Johnston