Hardware

Hello,

I am in the process of replacing old Contivity 1010 VPN routers through m0n0wall - it is a great system, thank you very much for building it - currently we run it in VMWare images, which is OK, but we are locked out on vm host problems... so the idea was born to use the old nortel hardware 

I am able to install the generic-pc-serial-1.33.img to a 16 MB CF card. The system boots and I get 2 network interfaces. After assigning them the console is flooded with "Interrupt Storm Detected - Throttling interrupt source" messages. Assigning an IP to the LAN interface works, but the interface won't work and gets an timeout.

I googleed a lot and found similiar issues with pfSense. I did find a solution using pfSense 1.2.3-RC1 by setting the interfaces to polluing mode (sysctl kern.polling.enable=1).

I hope I can do the same with m0n0wall, but I can't find how to get onto the console or how to set the parameter permanently.
I tired to use pfSense 2.0, too, but I didn't manage to make it work, because the polling.enabel kernel option seems not to exist in its kernel version.

All hints are apreciated. Maybe somebody can give me a hint how to enter the Contivity 1010 BIOS or assign non shared IRQs so that I do not need polling?

Cheers!