I've done a quick search on these forums for some sort of "direction". I cannot find a solution to my problem.
I have bought a Dell Power Edge 2300 (Dual P3 500, 256MB, 4x 9.1G SCSI) and I cannot get it to install E-Smith. I have tried versions 5.12, 5.5, 5.6, and 6. All with no success. It fails to detect the drives, yet it detects the SCSI controller (Adaptec) and loads the driver for it. I also tried loading the megaraid driver, as, the kernel detected it. Still fails to find a drive.
The HDD's are configured as raid5 via the SCSI bios. At the moment, I have installed SUSE 8 Professional, just to make sure that the hardware is working fine.....and well, it works, I'm typing this in mozilla.
The plan for the rig is to be a Wireless authentication router. ie. This box will have an ADSL modem on one NIC, and connected to an Access Point. Users will connect to this box, get authenticated, and allowed out to the internet (hopefully). Plus the usual stuff, Squid Caching, FTP/HTML access for wireless users. Is this possible?? We have a number of farming businesses that would benefit from having high speed internet, yet cannot get access to it. We have a big fat pipe to the internet, and would like for them to connect via some serious wireless hardware (already purchased and tested) and have them talk to our server and possibly with some sort of accounting system (mb used).
So, in closing, it is kind of going to be a mini-ISP. I want the farming community to retain their network infrastructre, connect to our server (PPPoE maybe) and not be able to see other users or the wireless.
I havn't found anyone else wanting to do this with linux, so any help would be appreciated.
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