I have installed Storm 2000 on a machine and intend to use it as a
firewall. I'm sure I have too much installed as I just went for the
"normal' installation.
There are 2 Novell/Eagle NE2000 Plus ISA cards in the machine with the
IOs @ 0x300 and 0x340, the IRQs @ 10 and 11. Neither one was found by
the system, in fact, when I tried to modprobe I got a message stating
that eth0 was an unknown interface; No such device.
I did some reading and found out I should create an alias for eth0 and
eth1 in the /etc/modules.conf file. Of course Debian creates that
file from the aliases file in /etc/modutils and changes should
be made there. So I added
# alias eth0 ne
with a comment (#) at the start of the line, then ran update-modules.
I know, that seems strange but the note in the aliases file said to
UNcomment the lines you don't want to load. I even rebooted to make
sure the changes took effect.
To my surprise, I was able to get eth0 up but it was NOT found on boot
up. I then followed the same procedure for eth1, but it doesn't work.
After trying modprobe (no message, just go to next line) I still get
the 'unknown interface; No such device' message trying to run ifup.
Neither card is found on boot up and I have no problems getting eth0
up manually or through SAS.
I have tried adding
options ne io=0x300,0x340 irq=10,11
to the aliases file but that doesn't seem to make any difference...
maybe it should go somewhere else?
I'm sure this is a simple thing and I am just trying to make it
extremely difficult. I tried a single floppy firewall called Freesco
and it found both cards with no problems, but it runs with an older
2.0.x kernel. Just for fun I tried another floppy firewall and it
won't find the cards at all.
Any ideas? I can bring it in tonight if someone wants to 'play
around' with it and show me how to fix it...
Dave
