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"Insert disk and press any key" error message appeared on my NetMAX console when I installed NetMAX on my SCSI disk.
I see the "Welcome to the NetMAX Installer" screen again.
I have gotten past the template page, but nothing happens.
"Missing operating system" error message appears.
"Unable to connect to server browser" error message.
I cannot find the city for my time zone on the clock tab.
Are the user name and password case sensitive?
How do I know which templates to select during setup?
How long does it take for the NetMAX to perform its first commit?
If I see red progress bars after the initial commit, what should I do?
I got an alert "AppleTalk services failed to start". What shall I do?
Can I use Unix utilities to update my user password database?
Does NetMAX support YP (Yellow Pages) and NIS/NIS+ (Network Information Services)?
Can I create more swap space on my NetMAX?
After configuring a second Ethernet interface, one of my Ethernet interfaces seems to stop working.
My SMC EtherPower (DEC 21041A) Ethernet card doesn't work!
I'm having problems installing LILO from SCSI, help!
Why can't my ISA card with a non standard address be detected?
Why is LILO incorrectly detecting IDE drives in the BIOS table?
My Adaptec 2940UW controller isn't working right. What's wrong?
Why is my IDE hard drive experiencing timeouts?
How do I set up my Diamond Video card for XWindows?
Booting NetMAX gives you "LI" and hangs.
How do I get my PCI modem to work with NetMAX?
Problems with RH6.1 on Supermicro P6 motherboards
When using Dialpad.com through my NetMAX Fire Wall, I can't hear the remote end of the connection.
I can't get the "external" NIC on my NetMAX machine to connect to my ISP and the Internet.
Why is my FreeBSD NetMAX machine detecting more devices than I have?
How do I change the IP address of my NetMAX machine?
Do changes made from the command line automatically appear in NetMAX?
How do I enable telnet on my NetMAX machine?
How do I change the hostname of my machine?
How do I change the IP address(es) on my NetMAX machine?
DSL/Modem and NetMAX

Applies to:  NetMAX FreeBSD Bld475
             NetMAX Linux   2.0.37

Applies to:  NetMAX FreeBSD Bld475
             NetMAX Linux   2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37

  1.  Select Install on Selected Hard Disk from the NetMAX Remote Installer 
  2.  Make sure to select the Enable Large SCSI Translation option. 

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Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37

    You did not append the 5150 Port to the IP address. 
    The NetMAX is not turned on. 
    The NetMAX is not plugged into the network. 
    You have a problem with the Ethernet connection. 
    The NetMAX may not have finished booting 

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

1. For NetMAX 2.x. From the Unix command line, type: "ifconfig -au". On the first line of output there should be a "flags" field, look for "MULTICAST" as one of the flags.
2. For NetMAX 3.x - 4.0x. From the command line, type: "ifconfig -a". Find the proper NIC (usually eth0 or eth1), and look at the fourth line down. These are the flags for that interface. See if "MULTICAST" is one of them.

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475
            NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x

Applies to: NetMAX Free BSD Bld475 
            NetMAX L2.2Pv3.x - 4.0x

Yes. To create more swap space on your NetMAX, perform these commands as "root".

1. Make sure you have enough space on /var (your system disk): df -k/var/swap

2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap/swap0 bs=1m count=5 The number "5" is how many megabytes of swap to add.

3. echo "/dev/vn0 /var/swap/swap0 swap" >> /etc/vntab If you do this more than once, use "vn1" the next time, "vn2" the third time, etc.

4. Add this line to the end to the /etc/rc.local file: /bin/test -r /etc/vntab && /usr/sbin/vnconfig -ae

It will be used automatically when the NetMAX boots. To enable it immediately, do "vnconfig -ae".

*** For Linux versions L2.2Pv3.x - L2.4P4.0x****

To create more swap space run these commands as root user.

1. touch /var/swapme

2. dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=(RAM size) of=/var/swapme

Where (RAM size) is the amount of RAM currently installed.
For example if your system has 128Mb of RAM then: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=128 of=/var/swapme

3. mkswap /var/swapme

4. swapon /var/swapme

5. Add this line to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local: swapon /var/swapme This will enable the new swap file each time your NetMAX reboots.
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Applies to:  NetMAX FreeBSD Bld475
             NetMAX Linux 2.0.37 - 4.0x
      

    Change the IP assignment of one of the Ethernet interfaces so that it 

    Here's an example:
    BAD:
      Ethernet interface    IP address       Netmask
      xl0                   192.168.0.1      255.255.255.0
      xl1                   192.168.0.2      255.255.255.0
    Interface xl0 is on the network 192.168.0/255.255.255.0, and so is xl1.

    CORRECT:
      Ethernet interface    IP address       Netmask
      xl0                   192.168.0.1      255.255.255.0
      xl1                   192.168.1.1      255.255.255.0
    Interface xl0 is on the 192.168.0/255.255.255.0 network, and xl1 is on the 

                  NetMAX BLD475 

For current users, the fix should be to put the following line into /etc/rc.conf:

  ifconfig_de0="media 10baseT/UTP"

  network_interfaces="de0 generic lo0"

Or request an update to the 3.3 FreeBSD kernel.
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Now, try reinstalling LILO (or NetMAX/Linux) without the IDE disk. Works just fine!

Once you have LILO installed correctly on the SCSI disk, you can reattach the IDE disk and LILO will continue to work OK.

If you have a SCSI and an IDE drive, and tell the BIOS to boot SCSI first, LILO will have a problem when installing NetMAX/Linux. It won't install correctly. It will try to install on the SCSI disk (i.e. it leaves the IDE disk alone, as it should), but the install fails. You have to deattach the IDE disk in order to get LILO to install on the SCSI disk.
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                  NetMAX Linux RH52P v2.0 

   LILO: linux ETHER1=smc-ultra,0x300,10

See the advanced configuration information on your NetMAX installation CD-ROM.
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                  NetMAX Linux RH52P v2.0 

Users who do not have LILO already installed AND have more than one hard drive on their system should read the following information.

The LILO installer (/sbin/lilo), as of version 21, does not correctly determine the number of IDE drives installed in your system's BIOS: it will use the number of IDE drives that the Linux system detects in order to determine the BIOS device number to boot off of. This BIOS device number gets written to a boot block on your hard drive.

So, if you are installing LILO (the NetMAX installer does), and you have more than one drive in your system, you may encounter difficulties if you are installing LILO onto drives other than the first IDE drive.
For example, if you have two drives, one IDE and one SCSI, and you want to install LILO and boot off of the SCSI drive, then you will have to have turned off or unplugged the IDE drive when the system was last booted, so the LILO installer will not count the IDE drive as a BIOS drive. Then, in order to boot off of the SCSI drive, you will have to disable the IDE drive (not the controller!) in the system's BIOS, and enable the SCSI controller's BIOS.
As another example, if you have two IDE hard drives, and you want to install LILO and boot off of the second IDE hard drive, then you will have to have turned off or unplugged the first IDE drive when the system was last booted, so the LILO installer will not count the first IDE drive as a BIOS drive. Then, in order to boot off the second IDE drive, you will have to disable the first IDE drive (not the controller!) in the system's BIOS.

There are alternatives to these methods, if you wish to read the LILO version 21 documentation, located at:

  ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/lilo/lilo-21.tar.gz
    in the lilo/README file

                  NetMAX FBSD32P v2.0
                  NetMAX FBSD33P v2.0
                  NetMAX BLD475

The EZXconfig setup does not work with the aforementioned card.

In order to setup XWindows using this video card, a little extra effort is required. You must run XF86setup instead of EZXconfig. Configure your mouse so you can manuver through the interface easier. Click on the 'Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM (TI RAMDAC)' entry, and do a detailed setup of the card. The chipset you should choose is 'S3_Generic'. The clockchip and the RAMDAC are both probably 'TI3026', but look at the TI chip on your card to make sure.
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1) If SCSI, toggle the value of "Large Hard Drive (> 1 Gb) Translation".

2) If IDE, try setting the "Mode", using the BIOS setup, of the boot drive to "LBA", and also try "CHS".
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1. Install setserial.

You can install setserial from Home|Services|Package Management

Click on ADD, select the category Applications/System, check the box next to setserial, and click on CONTINUE.

2. Configure Modem - (configure per manufacturers instructions see below)

3. Setup Modem in NetMAX Interface

From Home|Network|Interfaces click on the pencil next to ttySx (where x is the serial port that is detected with the modem)

Click on the SELECT button next to Current Configuration, check the box next to the "Generic 115200", then click on the pencil next to this modem and go to the Intialization Tab.

Click on the pencil next to the initialization sequence and edit it to read ATZ

Click on STORE, then SELECT, then STORE, then COMMIT, and commit your changes.

To our knowledge, this is the only PCI modem that Linux supports.
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1. Ensure that you are running the latest version of NetMAX, or have installed the "Port Forwarding" update available at ftp://ftp.netmax.com
2. In your Fire Wall configuration, you'll need to enable UDP: 51200, 51201, and TCP: 51210
3. Setup Port Forwarding (Traffic Rerouting) for these ports in Home|Network|Traffic Rerouting.

1. Go to Network->Interfaces->Edit Interface
2. Change the NetMAX to 128.0.0.0 and click Store
3. Click the Edit button to return to the Edit Interface screen
4. Add the new IP addresses to the list of IPs and click Store
5. Go to Network-Routing
6. Change the IP address of your default router to its new value and click Store
7. If your DNS servers are also changing, then navigate to Network->DNS
8. Change the DNS IP addresses to their new values and click Store
9. Go to Network->Domains
10. Change the IP ranges on your domains to the new IP range and click Store
11. Go to Network->Naming
12. Change the IP addresses associated with your hostnames to their new IP addresses and click Store
13. Go back to Network->Interfaces->Edit Interface
14. Remove your old IP addresses
15. Change your netmask back to its correct value
16. Store and Commit the changes
17. Physically plug your NetMAX into the new device (cable modem, router, etc...) if necessary
18. After waiting an appropriate amount of time (a few minutes), log into the NetMAX interface and test that everything is working properly
19. If you are still having problems, give us a call and we'd be happy to help out.

No.  

In fact, such changes may later be overwritten by NetMAX.

Since a NetMAX administrator may wish to configure specific
options from the command line, we have provided a tool to 
protect the command line changes from being overwritten by NetMAX.

In the /etc directory, there is a file called commit.conf.
Use this file to tell NetMAX not to modify specific files and/or directories.

The syntax of this file is explained withing /etc/commit.conf.

1. Edit the file: /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
2. Change "disable = yes" to "disable = no"
3. Restart xinet.d. This is most easily done by going to Services->FTP, and without changing anything, choose Store, then choose Commit.

1. Access the NetMAX interface.
2. Select Home | Network | Naming
3. Fill in the appropriate information (host name, domain name, IP address, etc.).
4. Ensure that the hostname you want is at the top of the list of hostnames by moving it up or down if necessary.
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1. Go to Network->Interfaces->Edit Interface
2. Change the NetMAX to 128.0.0.0 and click Store
3. Click the Edit button to return to the Edit Interface screen
4. Add the new IP addresses to the list of IPs and click Store
5. Go to Network-Routing
6. Change the IP address of your default router to its new value and click Store
7. If your DNS servers are also changing, then navigate to Network->DNS
8. Change the DNS IP addresses to their new values and click Store
9. Go to Network->Domains
10. Change the IP ranges on your domains to the new IP range and click Store
11. Go to Network->Naming
12. Change the IP addresses associated with your hostnames to their new IP addresses and click Store
13. Go back to Network->Interfaces->Edit Interface
14. Remove your old IP addresses
15. Change your netmask back to its correct value
16. Store and Commit the changes
17. Physically plug your NetMAX into the new device (cable modem, router, etc...) if necessary
18. After waiting an appropriate amount of time (a few minutes), log into the NetMAX interface and test that everything is working properly
19. If you are still having problems, give us a call and we'd be happy to help out.