Topic: E-SMITH is great (and works just fine with ISA)

[Bjorn Jacobsson]

Hello folks!

 Just wanted to tell that I am running e-smith on an 486 SX 33 with an NE ISA ethernetcard and an ISDN modem and it works just fine. Its really a great piece of work.

 I DID have some problems getting it to work with the ISA card tho but I thansk to this site and another linux bulletin board I got it working (yeah you guessed right, I dont know anything about linux). Ill try to write down what I did if it could help anyone.




First I had to use the dosutil program and tell the ethernetcard to shut of all the PnP wich involves both the IO, IRQ settings plus the settings for the TP/BNC (i told it to only use TP). Then I set the IO to 300 and IRQ 3 (just watch out so you dont get conflicts wich I had some problems with). Then I had to do some configuration in e-smith  

in the /etc/conf.modules there should be a line like this
options ne irq=3 io=300

then you have to make it run with typing
/sbin/e-smith/config set EthernetDriver1 ne
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save

/sbin/telinit 6

It was alot easier then I thought when I first run in to the problem. But I guess that is bcoz of my lack of knowledge. What I DO wonder is why they dont implement use for ISA cards in the console, is that to difficult?
 Anyway e-smith seems to rock the world of gateways!

Best Regards
Bjorn

[Rob Ballard]

Bjorn Jacobsson wrote:

> Hello folks!
>
> Just wanted to tell that I am running e-smith on an 486 SX 33
> with an NE ISA ethernetcard and an ISDN modem and it works just
> fine. Its really a great piece of work.
>

Hi Bjorn
I have e-smith running Great but I have Problems finding an Internal ISDN Modem here in the UK that will work with Linux
what make of modem are you using ??
and was it very difficult to set up

Best Regards
Rob Ballard in the UK

[Bjorn Jacobsson]

HI!

 Sorry it tok some time to answert but I havent been near any puter in a while.
I dont use an internal ISDN modem. I am using an external modem and it was no problem to set that up just plug it in and it work, but I DONT use both channels so I have no idee how to set that up as my ISP dont let me use both (darnit).

 Sorry I couldnt give you more help on the subject.

Best Regards
Bjorn