Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Geoff <capsthorne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:52:16 +0000
David <dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
tried
> 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

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