pmfirewall/ sblive (seperate issues)

[paully1]

I installed pmfirewall, but now I can't connect to anything on the net. I must have set it up wrong. How can I 'uninstall' pmfirewall(slack 7.1)? I need a good firewall for idiots, a no brainer to configure. Are there any out there? Or a idiots guide to pmfirewall?


I got my sblive setup without a hitch! So (under my user acct.) I downloaded an mp3 tried to play it with xmms and got an error (cant play output check card configuration). So I changed to 'root' and it played fine. Is there some permission I need to set so my user account can use the sblive? When I did it I followed the NHF.

thanks
paul

[turdball2k]

Originally posted by paully1:
I installed pmfirewall, but now I can't connect to anything on the net. I must have set it up wrong. How can I 'uninstall' pmfirewall(slack 7.1)? I need a good firewall for idiots, a no brainer to configure. Are there any out there? Or a idiots guide to pmfirewall?

In the folder that you extracted the tar.gz to / installed it from, it should have made a 'uninstall.make' file. Make sure it's executable, then execute it. That will uninstall it. I can't really give you to much help on it, but I use it, and love it. And if /I/ can use it, then it's pretty much useable by all... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

HTH
geo

[witman]

Originally posted by paully1:
I installed pmfirewall, but now I can't connect to anything on the net. I must have set it up wrong. How can I 'uninstall' pmfirewall(slack 7.1)? I need a good firewall for idiots, a no brainer to configure.

I was under the impression that PMFirewall was a firewall for idiots. I originally set up IPchains witha firewall from the NHFs. That took me days to get right. PMFirewall takes 25 seconds.



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The WITMAN Cometh!

[rod]

Sound permissions:


su
cd /dev
chmod 666 audio
chmod 666 dsp
chmod 666 mixer
adduser <user> audio


Regards,
Rod

[jakieboy]

About the sound thing,

Don't know if you are using KDE but ifso, go to the tool User Manager and edit the group sound, add your normal user-id.

I know I know, old (gui) habbits die hard http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

Jakieboy!

[paully1]

Originally posted by witman:
I was under the impression that PMFirewall was a firewall for idiots. I originally set up IPchains witha firewall from the NHFs. That took me days to get right. PMFirewall takes 25 seconds.


I installed it and answered 'no' to all the questions it asked me about different ports. Because I have no idea what port does what or anything. The next time I went into slack I couldnt get a webpage, it just said looking for host. I'm in win98 now, I had it start on bootup, then I do the dhcpcd -h <hostname> to get my cable goin. but before I get my command line it scrolls a whole bunch of things about the /sbin I didnt get a chance to take a closer look. I will tonight and post the details.

thanks
paul

[paully1]

Originally posted by turdball2k:
In the folder that you extracted the tar.gz to / installed it from, it should have made a 'uninstall.make' file. Make sure it's executable, then execute it. That will uninstall it. I can't really give you to much help on it, but I use it, and love it. And if /I/ can use it, then it's pretty much useable by all... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif
HTH
geo

There is an uninstall.make file in my home/<user> but how do I execute it (or tell its executable)? I tried:
uninstall, uninstall.make as root but it just said unknown command.

I also tried the following so my user account would have sound but the last line 'adduser <user> audio' wanted to create a new user account. I just want to let my current user account have access. When I tried to listen to an mp3 with xmms I got an error about /dev/dsp does not exist. Any ideas?

Sound permissions:

su
cd /dev
chmod 666 audio
chmod 666 dsp
chmod 666 mixer
adduser <user> audio


thanks
paul

[rod]

If you are not concerned about everyone being able to use audio....


chmod 777 /dev/dsp
chmod 777 /dev/mixer
chmod 777 /dev/audio


If you do not have </dev/dsp> simply create it.


Regards,
Rod


[This message has been edited by rod (edited 10 December 2000).]

[paully1]

Originally posted by rod:
If you are not concerned about everyone being able to use audio....


chmod 777 /dev/dsp
chmod 777 /dev/mixer
chmod 777 /dev/audio
If you do not have </dev/dsp> simply create it.


Regards,
Rod


[This message has been edited by rod (edited 10 December 2000).]


If I need to create /dev/dsp, do I just make it a blank text file? Not sure if thats what you meant by creating it. What is that /dev/dsp file anyway?
I'm the only one who uses this computer so everyone having access is no concern.

thanks
paul

[rod]

Yes you have to create it.
cd to the /dev directory
run-- ./MAKEDEV audio

That should do it for you I'm going from memory. If that doesn't work let me know.