Omnibook 6000 and Smoothwall

[Mosquito Chalkie]

I am trying to recycle my old Omnibook 6000 as a smoothwall firewall.
My omnibook 6000 is standard apart from a PCMCIA USB2 card and I am using a Motorola SB5100 cable modem.
I want to use the USB2 connection between the modem and the computer and the computer's built in ethernet port to connect to the rest of my network for internet sharing purposes.
I already have a bootable Smoothwall Express 2.0 CD but it doesn't seem to recognise the USB2 card.
Can anyone tell me whether what I want is possible, and if so, how to set it up.
Thank you.

[Oliver Schwank]

Hello,

intresting I had the same idea to reuse my old OmniBook 800 with two PCMCIA network cards for a firewall with IPCOP http://www.ipcop.org - a spin off product from smooothwall. ;-)

I had problems with the PCMCIA support of IPCOP, as far as my investigation revealed, that none of the out of the box firewalls are good in supporting PCMCIA and USB
There primary target are desktop systems with PCI and ISA bus for the NICs.

My conclusion is now to install a small subset of the stable Debian distribution and to build the firewall by myself.

Bye


Oli