How can I configure the firewall on my linspire oem system to allow cnr to work. I am getting the message from cnr that I am not connected to the internet. I can browse the internet from this computer.

I don't run linspire but i tried to search to find out what ports linspire requires and am not finding information. Try turning off the firewall for a VERY short time and test to see if it can connect. If so then yes it is the firewall that is blocking it. Also if it is being blocked by the firewall you might want to try a packet capture to see what ports and protocols it uses to so we can help w/ the firewall policy.


to run a packet capture disable the firewall and run tcpdump -npi eth0 > /tmp/tcpdump.cap (replace eth0 with whatever your interface name is) then connect with linspire then stop the tcpdump (ctrl+c) and re-enable the firewall. The tcpdump.cap will show what ports CNR uses to connect.

How can I disable the Firewall?

You can do so like this, but I highly recommend that you don't do it unless you're certain that you have no listening processes. The idea being that you wouldn't want to risk being exploited while your firewall is down. The ideal thing to do in cases such as this is to enable firewall logging (if it's not already enabled), and then inspect the logs to see what kind of packets are being filtered. You could then proceed to make the proper rules. BTW, if you do disable the firewall with the script I linked, you can re-enable it by rebooting (I can't offer a better suggestion since I don't know how Linspire handles the firewall).

I tried running the script that you recommended and I got this message.
"iptables v1.2.7a: Can't initialize iptables "raw": Table does not exist you need to insmod?)
I would prefer to completley disable this firewall and use the one in my router since that one has a graphical interface.

How can I set firewall logging?

I don't think that lacking a raw table should cause any problem if that was Linspire's design choice.

Typically it's just a matter of appending a LOG rule to a chain, but it depends on what your current firewall configuration looks like. If you could post the output of this command it would help us provide you with the most accurate suggestion:

here is the output of that command
-nvL~# iptables
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 26580 packets, 12M bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 28418 packets, 4236K bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

That says your firewall is disabled.

I'm moving this to Linspire/Freespire so that it may get specialized attention.

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