I am still having problems with the Firestarter firewall. When setting it up and selecting the modem as the internet connection, only eth0 is offered as a choice. I know that is wrong. The message in the window suggests that ppp0 should be used as the modem identification. That doesn't work. I see from Yast/modem that it is identified as /dev/ttyS1 modem0. I have
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:52:16 +0000
David
both of these and they don't work either. It would seem that the program is not seeing the modem at all. There are many messages being produced in the terminal window as follows. I really do not understand there meaning, except it cannot find ppp0
<snipped error messages> 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com