Re: Installation with no keyboard

Hi Joe,

Did you check if the machine has maybe inside an USB connection? Afterall
it is a basic Intel platform.....
Often you will encounter on the systemboard an USB connection, if yes,
then you are already half way.
If your machine has 64Mb as advertised, then I have my doubts about the
speed of the box under M0n0wall.
I ran in the past a P200 with 96Mb with M0n0wall 1.3b but that was way too
slow.

Cheers!
-- 
Harbert Reilink
Orangebox Networks
[email protected]
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:39:36 -0400, Joe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any way to install m0n0wall without any keyboard or serial
access?
> 
> I have a number of Toshiba Magnia SG20 machines, so I am trying to 
> configure m0n0wall on them.
> 
> ** I have the image installed on the hard disk, but can't get the 
> Ethernet ports configured.
> 
> There is no serial port.
> There is no USB or PS2, so no keyboard access.
> 
> There is an LCD panel on the front, which scrolls the boot messages as 
> if it were a VGA monitor.
> It stops at "Enter a number:"
> 
> I have Linux installed on another of these machines and this is the 
> 'lspci' report on the Ethernet controllers:
> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet 
> Pro 100 (rev 0c)
> 
> I found an earlier thread where it looked like someone was able to get 
> m0n0wall to automatically detect the NIC and he was able to use the web
> GUI.
> It looked like the specific controller made a difference which allowed 
> m0n0wall to just work with it.
> 
> I can install the m0n0wall disk as a second disk in my Linux system.
> 
> ** Is there a way to choose one of the above NICs by mounting the image 
> in Linux and editing something?
> 
> Is there any other way, like some sort of a rebuild of m0n0wall?
> That sounds like quite a bit more involved, so of course easier is
better.
> 
> I just had another thought: would I be able to mount the disk in a 
> virtual machine and configure it? I don't currently have any virtual 
> machine, but would be willing to try and set one up if it might work.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated, as always.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Joe
> 
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