Installation

Hello,

I try to start with M0n0wall but i have some problems...
After install I have no contact over IP with M0n0wall.

What i did:
- Compaq pentium 4 1 Ghz computer with onboard Ethernet (as WAN port)
- PCI ethernetcard (as LAN port).
- CD rom with cdrom-1.235.iso
- HD or USB stick
- Crosscable between the LAN port and a laptop

The computer started with the cd rom and the system says:

LAN IP address: 192.168.1.1

Port configuration:

LAN -> sis0
WAN -> sis1

But when I go to option 1 (Interfaces: assign network ports) the ports calls rl0 and rl1.
When I change the ports to rl0 and rl1 and i reboot the computer the ports are back to sis0 and sis1.
When I try to ping both ethernet ports  (whith LookAtLan) no IP address is responding.
The DHCP didn't work on the M0n0wall computer...

Can you help me?

Richard
Sneek - Holland.


ps. Sorry for myn bad englisch....


EDIT: I found the answer of the problem: I make a bootable CompactFlash and it's works! I think that's someting wrong in the cd version...

I have the same problem with the cd-rom version. The devices don't change. It always reads sis0 and sis1. I tried latest stable and beta release. Tested on PII with RTL8139 cards and VMWare. I don't use a floppy drive and want to inject config later by web gui if possible. I also installed the cd-rom version to hdd (on vmware) but it doesn't change anything. Maybe there's something hardcoded to use the floppy and it doesn't work without.

Any solution known?

I have the same problem with the cd-rom version. The devices don't change. It always reads sis0 and sis1. I tried latest stable and beta release. Tested on PII with RTL8139 cards and VMWare. I don't use a floppy drive and want to inject config later by web gui if possible. I also installed the cd-rom version to hdd (on vmware) but it doesn't change anything. Maybe there's something hardcoded to use the floppy and it doesn't work without.

Any solution known?

You must have something to store the config, a floppy or USB flash drive. Read the quick start guide.

The quickstart doesn't read anything about a mandatory floppy disk and even the boot screen tells about optional floppy. Even the HDD image doesn't work (look below). It shouldn't be necessary for unix systems to reboot just to change the network device.

Like i said before its intended to export settings later from the web gui. I just need to get the device changed to get access to the webgui.

I also tested the CF/HDD image with VMWare. Still the same problem. The ip change will be saved but not the device change. Its always stuck at SIS devices even though i defined em0 at option 1.

Is it possible to get direct shell access to manually set up the devices? Its maybe just a frontend bug.

Edit: Ok.. i think i got it. It is mandatory to have a floppy disk because changes do need a restart. That should be improved to automatically pick the first found devices to prevent floppy usage. Floppies won't last long for sure... And two network cards are a must-have as well. The menu doesn't throw out any errors but it doesn't save anything with just one NIC. Its very confusing if you don't know that exact behavior.