Semi-serious request: I really don't think I can afford 350 pounds for an Intel card with a hugely impressive but for me gratuitous Gigabit of bandwidth when all I need is three ethernet ports on a firewall on a set up I run for charities (it's a sort of ISP but only for opt-in lists!) at a net loss to myself. My stupid fault but any help or advice desperately needed as my old firewall is making very nasty noises.
Long, tedious story that has gone to debian-users and netdrivers in little hope below but thanks for reading this far anyway!! Chris Long story: I hope I can get some help on this list as I've dug myself in a hole I think. I run debian stable (3.0r2) for a small home set up on ADSL that handles Email (closed opt in!) for some charities. I've used old hardware for a firewall and a server but the firewall is dying and I replaced it with a lovely, small, near silent box with a VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboard which has two LAN ports controlled by a VT6105 on board controller. If I stick a tried and tested realtek 8139 clone PCI card in I can have the three ports I want .... Having always used old hardware and never hit compatibility problems I didn't realise I was asking for trouble. The 2.4.18 kernel is the latest in the Debian stable distro and I want to stick with Debian 'cos I know and trust it, and stable 'cos of the security updates, particularly important as this is firewall. Trouble is that I think the driver I need is a via-rhine one but the one that comes with that Debian kernel won't install (the rtl one does fine!). I've tried pulling the driver (rhinefet) off the VIA motherboard site and the via-rhine off the scyld site but I'm hopelessly out of my depth now as there are clearly old and vexatious issues about the ways that different distros store the headers and source, e.g. both VIA and scyld's Makefiles and source want a modversions.h file that clearly doesn't exist in Debian .. I've tried to work round that but modprobe on the via-rhine.o I finally produced gives all sorts of unresolved symbol complaints and I know I'm out of my league here. Can anyone help? The only alternative I can see looming is to spend about a third as much as I paid for the entire machine on a totally unnecessarily fast quadport Intel card (I need three ports and only have one free PCI slot as the machine is so small). Sod, sod, sod: I'll take hardware compatibility more seriously in future won't I?! TIA, Chris PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, teaching and consultancy. Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle http://psyctc.org/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
