On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:13:55AM +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:14:25PM +0000, robin szemeti wrote: > > > smoothwall is good and just requires an old 486 or similar.
> > b) it didn't support ADSL via USB, so I gave up and used FreeBSD > > instead, what with it actually working and stuff. > > Not to be a pain, but I managed to get smoothwall working with USB > ADSL a couple of months ago for a friend. You do need to download the > alcatel drivers and pick a file out them beforehand, but other than > that, it works quite well and easily. > > I think SmoothWall 0.9.9 and later claim to be able to do this. Bad phrasing. It (Smoothwall 0.9.9se, ISOed from the website circa 2001-12-20) claimed to support USB, but despite following the instructions, hitting the machine a bit and asking on IRC (where I got the wonderfully helpful advice 'your hardware is broken'), I decided not to bother any more and install FreeBSD on the fairly sound basis that I knew someone who had got the same kit working. And lo, FreeBSD was good (once I figured out what I was doing, anyway). -- :: paul :: husk
