On Monday 26 February 2001 15:59, Tom Bishop wrote:

I snapped up this bargain after church yesterday in Omaha, NE, and spent most of the night installing and configuring. Very nice. I think the boot screen is an especially nice touch. Everything seems to be OK except for my modem connecting all the time, but I will ferret out that problem, I hope. Likewise, great job once again SuSE. Sure is nice to be back with the new Kmail and KDE2.

Tom, Did you do an upgrade or a fresh install? JLK

On Monday 26 February 2001 19:09, Tom Bishop wrote: <snip>

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Tom, Did you do an upgrade or a fresh install? JLK

Hi Jerry, Should have mentioned that. Fresh "kitchen sink" install......my usual....I pare it down from there. I am getting some errors @boot regarding firewall and ppp0 (can't locate module ppp0) and that darn modem connecting thing is maddening, but these things always work themselves out as info from the list starts coming in. However all seems to be working in spite of the messages. The net is up, most certainly dialing-on-demand works, and the files are flying from machine to machine. On to fine tuning. I like the inclusion of LinNeighborhood this time, but Webmin would have been good, too. Not a biggy. I am using XF86-3.x.x for the benefit of 3D. So far I have booted both 2.2.18 and 2.4 wihout major probs. Life is good! Tom

That 'firewall' thing is annoying. I have mine turned off but the message appears telling me that anyway. I also am having and unusual amount of trouble getting my ppa to load my Zip100, which is attached to lp1. I have my BJC-620 on lp0. I have lp set as a module but the kernel turns it on anyway, then the "insmod ppa" comes back with a busy message. I recompiled with kerneld off but it still does the same thing. I'm trying to figure it out. I also noticed that while the 2.2.18 kernel appears to be the default, the distro puts the 2.4.2 kernel tree in /usr/src/linux. ???? /etc/modules has only the 2.2.18 module tree, which is equally puzzleing, considering that the kernel source is 2.4. I deleted the 2.4 kernel source and installed the 2.2.18 source. I can't use 2.4 on this box (1996 Sony Vaio with Yamaha sound chip) because OSS and 2.4 don't get along very well just yet, and alsa refuses to see my chips, even when I point right at it. So. no 2.4 for my wife! (I'm getting a new box shortly! :-) JLK

On Friday 02 March 2001 07:53, Damon Register wrote:

Jerry Kreps wrote:

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That 'firewall' thing is annoying. I have mine turned off but the

I am not sure if you are talking about the same problem that I have found. Startup with the firewall turned on in rc.config results in lots of error messages about permission denied. I checked the files in /etc/rc.config.d and I noticed that they all are lacking the execute permission. What's up with this? Has anyone else seen this? Why aren't the files installed with the correct permission?

Damon Register

Yes, I have been having a hell-of-a-heck-of-a-time with this. Once everything was fine with the firewall and everyone could surf and email through my machine (gateway). But I turned my back and the firewall and ipmasq turned to poop. I don't know why. Even had all things setup once using PMfirewall and it took a dump also. PPP, wvdial.dod and SuSEfirewall have been a royal pain. Right now, the only way I could get things to work was to add: ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -i ppp0, to boot.local. This is a chicken way to do it, but I ran out of patience. Once I had to change the order of the bootscripts so eth0 would be started before the firewall, otherwise I got really weird messages. In fact I am still getting messages about "split-brained" command, etc. at boot-up, but things still are working. I think something is wrong here, and I suppose it will eventually come up to the light of day. Sorry, this doesn't help much, but I was glad to see it wasn't just me. BTW, I have tried with both 2.2.18 and 2.4 on SuSE 7.1. So much for silk! Tom

I went to BB yesterday and they did not have a single Linux OS box on the shelves. That was in Laural Maryland. I have been calling

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