floppyfw

Download:

Current stable :

3.0.*

3.0.15, Kernel 2.4.37.11, set up for 386 machines with FPU (and most probably minimum 12M RAM!). Iptables/netfilter with iproute2 istead of ipchains. Also includes Wondershaper for simple traffic shaping. uClibc-0.9.28

Packages compiled for each specific version. See the Packages list for details and links to other packages aswell.

Packages that should work on the whole 3.0 series. See the Packages list for details and links to other packages aswell.

Development kit. This is if you want to roll your own floppyfw version, maybe make new packages or add kernel patches or just learn. See the Devkit Wiki pages for details and a small HOWTO.

Directly supported network devices:

• 3com 3c509, 3c59x and 3c90x
• NE2000 Compatible cards
• Tulip based cards.
• intel EtherExpress PCI-cards. (10 ad 100Mbit)
• RealTek rt8139 and friends.
• RealTek rt8139+ and friends.
• RealTek rt8169
• VIA rhine
• AMD PCNet32 (which also is the adapter used in vmware)

Other Network devices is supported but you have to download and install the modules.

Changelog

Nice to find:

• The whole shebang. The download directory in all it's pride.
• rawrite2.exe for creating the floppies under DOS/Windows.
• Configuration files, for kernel and busybox..
• WinImage. A replacement for rawrite2.
• Look here to follow the development, alpha, beta versions, and more..

Previous stable

(With glibc, discontinued unless someone really needs a newer version):

2.0.*

2.0.11.1, Kernel 2.4.29, set up for 386 machines with FPU (This is a change, it's now needed with an FPU and most probably minimum 12M RAM!). Iptables/netfilter with iproute2 istead of ipchains. Glibc-2.1.3

2.0.11.1-1680K A 1680K image. This is the same as the ordinary 1.44M image but has room for more packages.

2.0.11.1-1680K A 1680K image with PPPoE. This size was needed to get everything into one floppy.

2.0.10 as ISO image

Traffic shaping is now in a tc package

Directly supported network devices:

• 3com 3c509, 3c59x and 3c90x
• NE2000 Compatible cards
• Tulip based cards.
• intel EtherExpress PCI-cards. (10 ad 100Mbit)
• RealTek rt8139 and friends.
• RealTek rt8139+ and friends.
• AMD PCNet32 (which also is the adapter used in vmware)

Other Network devices is supported but you have to download and install the modules.

Changelog

Current stable with the 2.2 kernel:

1.0.*

1.0.15, Kernel 2.2.23, set up for 386 machines with no FPU, or better. glibc-2.0.7

1.0.15-pppoe, Kernel 2.2.23, set up for 386 machines with no FPU, or better. glibc-2.0.7. PPPoE packages, only set username and password in the config file.

Supported network devices:

• 3com 3c509, 3c59x and 3c90x
• NE2000 Compatible cards, both ISA and PCI
• Tulip based cards.
• intel EtherExpress PCI-cards.
• RealTek rt8139, rt8129 and friends.
• Modules support for adding modules for other NIC's.

Kernel patches:

• VPN patches. ip_masq_ipsec, ip_masq_pptp and ip_masq_h323

Changelog