Thanks Geoff Never occurred to me that it would only be visible when connected. Setting it up on line sorts that out and most of the error messages. Also found that I hadn't configured to correctly. I am running KDE but it is said to be ok so long as the Gnome libraries are installed. It is meant to start on dial up, but doesn't. The alternative is to put it into the start up, there are only instructions for RH. Where do I go in Suse. On connection I think I am using kinternet, little plug in bottom right hand corner. Can it be configured not to disconnect after a couple of minutes. Is there an equivalent to the Windows modem lights in the sys tray. I find it useful to know what is going on. Now I have to work out how to get the Win box to connect through. Regards, David On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:42:27 +0000, Geoff wrote:
I am afraid that I may not be able to be much help on thid occasion, because I do not know Firestarter and my knowledge of firewalls is limited.
One thing that does occur, however, is to ask whether you are online when you do this configuration exercise. I ask because (unlike eth0), ppp0 does not exist until a connection is made. If as, root, you run "ifconfig", you will see details of the available interfaces - ppp0 will not be in the list until you log on to your ISP.
Secondly, I do not know if you are running the gnome desktop, or just using the libraries so that you can use Firestarter. If it is the former then I think that may account for some of the errors.
If you are not online, see if going online helps and report back to us.
I am sure that others on the list can be more help here.
Geoff
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