On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:48:32 +0000
David
An update on the non progress.
I have been poking around in Konqeror file manager and noticed an Autostart option. This creates an autostart folder and was able to put firestarter into it - and it works. Well that is the good bit. The bad is that although it loads and works, Netscape crashes (surprise!!), and the Konqueror browser is not able to go anywhere. So it seems it is not a good idea to have Firestarter start first. It has been suggested somewhere to load it in ip-up. This does not work, but I
notice from the xconsole read out that it does not load up this file. Extract below.
<snip> Gd'evening David, Since I am the bold soul who speculated about ip-up (without knowing whether it would work or not), I have been doing a little hunting around. You may have read it already, but on the Firestarter homepage there is a FAQ, which contains the following : Q: Firestarter is blocking all my traffic. How come nothing works? A: Three possible causes: 1. <snip> 2. You're on a modem connection and started the firewall before dialing out. Restart the firewall after connecting to your ISP. There is an button in the wizard that will automate this. 3. <snip> It occurs to me that this may explain the problems with Netscape and Konqueror. If that is right then, have you tried the alleged button in the wizard? There is not much point in trying to finesse the loading of Firestarter in ip-up (eg by including an insmod for ipchains), if this is the real problem. Sorry if you have already tried the above. Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com