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New Messagenew article from linuxdevices.com (modified 0 times) vwbug19
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intresting note from there the box look pretty muck same s websurfer pro but with ethernet port and ah! a hard drive mount yup thats the same location as the modded hard drive mount see the url http://www.linuxdevices.com/products/PD4447954264.html
08-04-2001 20:46:57

New MessageRE:new article from linuxdevices.com (modified 0 times) ttn1
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GCT-Allwell is the company that made the WSP. The Websurfer people just slapped there name on it. The original article for the firewall/router has been around for quite awhile. In fact, this is exactly what I did with one of my websurfers about a year ago. My router/firewall WSP is still running strong. The GCT-Allwell distributor was selling these boxes for about $299, don't know what the currect price is. They also have the mini audio out and audio in jacks, along with a few other goodies.

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08-05-2001 06:04:18

New MessageRE:new article from linuxdevices.com (modified 0 times) vwbug19
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yep and the info on settting up xconfig setting and with downloadable file called xf86free.zip that you can set up rh7.1 with tv out enabled!!!!! now it has support for tv viewing :)
08-05-2001 10:35:04

New MessageRE:new article from linuxdevices.com (modified 0 times) Linuxguru
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To ttn1: There's a closeout sale on ISA combo PnP 56k modem and 10BaseT ethernet w/integrated hub, for $17.50 at Halted Specialties. The units are Novaweb 2001 cards, with Rockwell RCVDL56ACFW *hardware* modem, Davicom DM9008F 10BaseT NIC (NE2000) and Am79c894 4-port 10BaseT hub, all integrated on a single half-sized ISA card that fits perfectly in a websurfer, even with a notebook IDE drive installed inside.

Has anybody successfully set these up under Linux? It would seem to require mucking around with isapnp. The card is near perfect for use with the Websurfer as a dial-up router/firewall. However, I could not see any messages from the BIOS indicating that it had found a plug-and-play card.

I plugged a card into an old 486, and the BIOS PnP recognition worked fine, but I haven't had time to investigate the Linux issues yet.

08-05-2001 12:04:00

New MessageRE:new article from linuxdevices.com (modified 0 times) ttn1
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Linuxguru: Actually that's looks pretty interesting, but I'm very short on time right now. I set my WSP up as a router for my cable modem. I flashed the BIOS to accept both a PCI and an ISA card together. Then I desoldered the RJ-45 connectors and LEDs from the cards. I soldered the connectors and LEDs to a piece of proto-board and connected them back to the cards with ribbon cable. I then installed linux router project on the DOC. I removed the fan and added a large heatsink and now have a very low power, solid state router. It also gives me complete control over all the routing to internal web servers and file servers. Hasn't let me down yet. It even served a short while serving my webpage. Worked quite nicely, as long as my page was under 4 MB or so.

Good luck with the combo cards, my solution with linux so far has been to switch hardware when it didn't detect it. So I'm probably not a good one to ask.

ttn1

08-06-2001 18:21:26

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