William S. wrote:
> Has anyone out there tried configuring e-smith on an ISA bus PC
> by adding additional drivers for the ISA NICs?
There are actually two problems with the configuration you describe.
Firstly, the install process will not complete correctly on systems without
a PCI bus. It gets to the end of installing software, then is interrupted
before it runs the final configuration step. If you get that far, then reboot, there will be ashell script in /tmp called "ks.sript". Run that shell
script and reboot the server - it should come up as a normal e-smith server.
Now you strike the second problem, the configuration screens do not
allow you to choose ISA network cards. The drivers, by the way, are there, there just isn't an easy way for you to activate them.
You will now need to log in as root (Alt-F3 to get a login prompt. If your
ISA NICs need any options, you will need to add them to /etc/conf.modules like this:
options ne io=0x300
options 3c509 io=0x320
Then activate them in the e-smith configuration:
/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 ne
/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver2 3c509
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
Then configure everything else using the console and web GUI, and you
should ahve a working system.
Charlie
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