Installation

Hello,
I've been using smoothwall for quite sometime and finally decided to switch because I heard m0n0wall uses little to nothing hardware. Here are the system specs:

P3 800mhz
384mb/RAM
3 nics

I wanna do away with the harddrive and go with a cf card (16mb). I’m also buying a CF/IDE adapter. Just wondering as for upgrading the firmware, I can do it remotely? If not, would I have to use a diff method for upgrading?

Thanks,

-late

Hi.

I suggest a 32meg CF card. Thats so small by any standard today so should still be very cheap.

Write it to the CF card with physicaldiskwrite.exe. Read the warnings and take care! Try with no card. check all disks listed (cancel dos cmd  window)  then plug un card, try again, note extra disk, also small size compared to anything else in your pc.

i had an oldish 32meg that reads and writes ok but wont boot in the CF adapter.
Seems thats common problem! newish 2gig card boots just fine.

We have dicksmith electronics selling 1gig Cf for $22 thats the smallest and cheapest card i can see locally.

After you have the image on the card and in the adapter and the bios set to boot from the ide then it boots. set the ip and ip interfaces. reboot.
access from the web gui on another pc. you canupgrade from then on from the web gui most new versions.

i considered getting a CF adapter where the card is in the backplane of the pc but figured if its installed inside and updated via web gui then likely never have to remove the cover again. But of need to its a small job.

good luck.

Thank you, buying all the material I need as we speak.
One more question, would you know of any wireless pci cards that work with m0n0wall. I've taken a look at the freebsd hardware support list but can not make out which companies use which chipsets. If you can list a few cards which work with m0n0wall as a AP I would greatly appreciate. 

Thanks,

-late

I have used a lot of these with no problems.
http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/Modlist.asp?CatNo=87&LangNo=0

Make sure the "drive" is detected properly, or add it to the BIOS manually.