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OK, I have Slackware 10.0. I have a dlink ethernet card and I have a
cable modem. I could't get Slackware Linux to recognize the card, so I'm
back on Windows XP. (I'm sorry, I just need the Internet) So, how do I
get Slackware to recognize my card???
Also, once I do get connection to the Internet, how do I put a firewall
on this machine??? I've read everything I could find in the FAQ's and
HOWTOs out there, and they didn't answer anything. I don't know what to
do to get this thing to work, and a firewall is very important.
Please reply if possible. My email address is davidallenbauer@hotpop.com.
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David A. Bauer wrote:
... how do I get Slackware to recognize my card???
Depending on the model of the network interface card, you may need to
configure the system to load the correct module, with appropriate
options. More details than that would likely require that you tell us
more about your network interface.
Also, once I do get connection to the Internet, how do I put a firewall
on this machine???
much of that depends on what you intend by "firewall". If your goal is
to simply keep outsiders from accessing your personal system, you need
only ensure that no services are running and listening on the external
address. The "firewall" becomes unnecessary in that case.
On the other hand, if you do intend to have some services running, but
accessible from only certain addresses (for example), proper
configuration of TCP_Wrappers may be as much "firewall" as you need.
If your intention is to use the Linux system _as_ a firewall, to protect
other computers on a LAN behind, and perhaps to provide network address
translation services, you'll need to research IP-Tables, (if you
installed the IP-Tables utilities on your system with the OS, you should
be able to get a reasonable start by reading associated manual pages).
Don't expect to find anything of the "ZoneAlarm" variety: in most cases
something like TCP-Wrappers will give you the same functionality with
much fewer headaches. In *all* cases, simply turning off services will
provide you with the "best" access control.
I hope I've helped, but if you come back with a) a model number for your
network interface, and b) more detail about what you intend to use a
firewall for, I'm sure others will be able to provide you with even more
help.
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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca
Systems analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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David A. Bauer wrote:
OK, I have Slackware 10.0. I have a dlink ethernet card and I have a
cable modem. I could't get Slackware Linux to recognize the card, so I'm
back on Windows XP. (I'm sorry, I just need the Internet) So, how do I
get Slackware to recognize my card???
Make/Model? Then google for it, you should find a kernel module name for it.
Using the lspci command might also help you ID the card too.
Also try looking in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking.
Also, once I do get connection to the Internet, how do I put a firewall
on this machine???
Linux comes with the netfilter firewall, you configure it with the iptables
command. There are a bunch of utils that can help you create firewall
scripts (look them up on freshmeat.net) and a bunch of HOWTOs FAQs on
tldp.org and netfilter.org.
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Blumf wrote:
Also, once I do get connection to the Internet, how do I put a firewall
on this machine???
Linux comes with the netfilter firewall, you configure it with the iptables
command. There are a bunch of utils that can help you create firewall
scripts
I would recommend GuardDog and FireStarter. Both do the job pretty well.
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Milan Babuskov
http://abrick.sourceforge.net
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David A. Bauer wrote:
OK, I have Slackware 10.0. I have a dlink ethernet card and I have a
cable modem. I could't get Slackware Linux to recognize the card, so I'm
back on Windows XP. (I'm sorry, I just need the Internet) So, how do I
get Slackware to recognize my card???
Have you tried turning the hotplug on?
Is that the PCI card? If yes, look at the output of "lspci" and search
the google with card info you find there.
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Milan Babuskov
http://abrick.sourceforge.net
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# Some dlink cards use the tulip driver and some the via-rhine if
I am remembering right or possibly the ne and the 8390 driver
together. Dlink only made about 40 cards. there are about
15 possible driver combinations. I think there are only 3 or
4 where you have to use 2 drivers at once, in the older cards
What model is your card?.
# You will find these module's "switches" so to speak in /etc/rc.modules
You may modify the right line for your card by uncommenting the
appropriate "modprobe line" -- removing the # mark.
The dlink website may have some clues. Possibly the Ethernet-HOWTO
in /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTO
Did you run netconfig and setup routing correctly?
What is the output of "dmesg|more" with regard to eth0?
What is the output of "/sbin/ifconfig" and "netstat -n" ?
There is a good IPCHAINS firewall made by roaring penguin.
http://roaringpenguin.com
The product it was contained in was rp-pppoe. They still
have it under free software. They
may also have an iptables firewall as well, for pppoe. If your
kernel has backward compatibility with IPCHAINS, (which used
to be compilable, but I don't know about 10.1) then it would be easy to
implement. It would not hurt to try looking inside it even though
rp-pppoe was not made for cable modems. The firewall
would still work, as it is not tied to any sort of kernel. Like
I said, it may be IPCHAINS, but that may be soluble in your kernel,
certainly it should be if you rebuild the kernel according to the
readme in /usr/src/linux and after reading how to configure it
in a few HOWTOs.
There are other basic firewalls sort of pre-written in the IPTABLES
HOW-TO. I believe they are broken though.
Some kernels will not have all the "packet inspection switches" turned
on that will allow a firewall to work. That takes reading a firewall
how-to in /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs and then recompiling the kernel in
with reference to the networking section. It always did require that,
but 10.1 may have changed that. A good thing is to go into that HOWTO
directory and doing this "grep -i iptables * | less" Then look at each
HOWTO in turn until you can figure out how to do an easy firewall.
EC[:-}
David A. Bauer wrote:
OK, I have Slackware 10.0. I have a dlink ethernet card and I have a
cable modem. I could't get Slackware Linux to recognize the card, so I'm
back on Windows XP. (I'm sorry, I just need the Internet) So, how do I
get Slackware to recognize my card???
Also, once I do get connection to the Internet, how do I put a firewall
on this machine??? I've read everything I could find in the FAQ's and
HOWTOs out there, and they didn't answer anything. I don't know what to
do to get this thing to work, and a firewall is very important.
Please reply if possible. My email address is davidallenbauer@hotpop.com.
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