<div dir="ltr">2008/10/3 William Gebers <<a href="mailto:wgebers@gmail.com">wgebers@gmail.com</a>> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Robert. Have you tried running Firestarter as root?  Although I have never tried using Firestarter, it sounds like it may have to do with permissions.  I.e. the software is trying to check the status of something that it does not have permission to access and hence thinks it is not active? </blockquote><div> I can second that. I had a similar weird message way back when and running firestarter as root should sort things - in fact I think that the graphical interface launches with gksudo by default.  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Regards William 2008/10/2 Robert Holm <<a href="mailto:robhholm@lantic.net">robhholm@lantic.net</a>>: <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hi, > > I am somewhat intrigued by the following: > I connect to the internet via an iBurst desktop modem using the ethernet > port. Works perfectly. > > When I load the Firestarter firewall that I used successfully with my > dialup connection I get the following: "Failed to start the firewall. > The device eth0 is not ready. Please check your network device settings > and make sure your internet connection is active." > > What intrigues me is that, in spite of this, the firestarter gui > reflects the following: > Network Device eth0, Type internet, records the bandwidth received and > sent correctly, shows the activity speed, and shows the IP addresses of > the active connections. > > This seems to me to be a contradiction and, while I'm not losing any > sleep over it, it would be interesting to understand what is going on. > > Anyone have any idea? > > Robert > > > -- > ubuntu-za mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> > -- ubuntu-za mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Quintin van Rooyen 0824772477 <a href="mailto:quintin.vanrooyen@gmail.com">quintin.vanrooyen@gmail.com</a> The New SA Geek! <a href="http://blog.sageek.co.za">http://blog.sageek.co.za</a> </div>