Topic: ISA LAN Card (not supported)

[Daniel]

Gudday,

Only PCI LAN Cards are supported by e-smith.

There are instructions for adding an unsupported LAN card at

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=1805.msg6010#msg6010

will they work for an ISA card?

kudzu doesn't seem to know anything about it, but I don't really know what I'm doing...

Have any of the 486 people out there used an ISA NIC successfully?

I have a Compex RL2000a (PCI version is supported) and an SMC Card, both work fine in Win95.

If I can get this working the potential is great as I think i can get a line on a bunch of old 486 machines.

Alternatively, as all I need is NAT & DHCP, (NAT alone will do if it must), is there a suitable alternative to e-smith altogether?

[Dan Brown]

If NAT and DHCP are all you need, then e-smith is really overkill for you.  Something like freesco (www.freesco.com) would do what you need and fit on a single floppy.  IIRC, Coyote Linux is another possibility (check on freshmeat.net for this one).