<x-flowed>At 08:12 AM 2/10/01 -0800, David Faught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My current goal is to get a firewall running so that I
>can get my home LAN attached to the Internet. My PC
>of choice for the firewall is a half dead (half
>alive!) notebook with a pair of PCMCIA 3Com cards for
>NICs.
>
>I have (just) recompiled a 2.2.17 kernel with the 2
>required LRP patches and the Openwall patches, along
>with MCA support (for other purposes). I replaced the
>kernel on the "February revision of the December
>version" of the Oxygen-LRP distribution. Along with
>this new kernel (and modules, I'll create a tarball
>some day), I compiled the latest PCMCIA support
>package. And therein lies the reason for this note
>...
>
>The PCMCIA cardmgr recognizes cards that are
>dynamically inserted/removed and creates/destroys /dev
>entries for them. This doesn't work with Oxygen; a
>"permission denied" message comes out, I believe
>because of the LCAP package? This has now been folded
>into Oxygen, so I can't just omit the LCAP package. I
>can't seem to find how to shut this off. How do I do
>this? And/or maybe implement it later in the boot
>process?
>
>I tried this same kernel and pcmcia package based on
>LRP 2.9.8, and it works okay, so I know it's not the
>Openwall patch this is causing this problem.
David F.,
This is just a WAG, but did you check the permissions on the /dev
directory? I believe David D. changed some of the directory permissions in
Oxygen for security reasons.
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Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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