Ok I could be a freaking idiot but I figured I might as well check. Has anyone got this error when trying to run iptables on the new 2.6.1 Kernel?

FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
iptables v1.2.9: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.


Thanks!

Justyn

can I see the output of lsmod?

root@bosshog:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
root@bosshog:~#

well, I've always gotten something outputted at least. like
[root@Tux root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ide-cd 35808 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 33728 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5148 1 (autoclean)
vfat 13100 1 (autoclean)
fat 38776 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
emu10k1 69128 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 14632 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound 74196 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore 6500 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]
radeon 115684 13
agpgart 48160 3

But my suggestion right now would be to do insmod ip_tables.o and then try starting your firewall up. See if that works.

Ok I tried that command and it tells me no such file ip_tables.o

When I boot into 2.6.0 iptables works fine. Do you think when I compiled 2.6.1 the modules did not get compiled for some reason?

Did you make oldconfig on it? That would take the same config file from the last compile.

Yes I tried that...I also ran make menuconfig and made sure netfilter was marked as YES in the menu.