Hi, If you installed SuSE 7.2, you don't need to recompile the kernel to be able to use iptables. All the required modules should be there, in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/net/ipv[46]/netfilter. However, the current SuSE firewall scripts still use ipchains and load the ipchains compatibility module at boot time. I suspect the iptables modules cannot be loaded together with ipchains. By the way, your make_modules looks fine. Did you install the new kernel, including lilo, and did you reboot afterwards? Otherwise you're still running the previous kernel. Tim On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 05:27:59PM +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:

I installed SuSE7.2, and it worked !!! In order to get iptables to work, I need to recompile it, and I tried many ways: * upgrade from /mantel to 2.4.9 * upgrade from /update to 2.4.7 * from scratch 2.4.9, 2.4.7, 2.4.6 .... All ends more or less with the problem, that the modules are not working! Whereby, the compiling of the modules are still working, and I can e.g., find the module ip_conntrack_ftp.o, but a modprobe says module not found, same for the Ethernet card, .... The last lines of make modules_install looks like: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.6/arch/i386/lib` cd /lib/modules/2.4.6; \ mkdir -p pcmcia; \ find kernel -path `*/pcmcia/*` -name `*.o` |xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.6; fi I believe the make modules_install script is not finished !!! Does anybody have an idea how to solve this ??? bye Ronald

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