just finished successfully compiling my kernel to 2.6.5 had had problems with sound and networking before, and as someone mentioned on the board, the sound problem was rectified by compiling ALSA and OSS as modules instead of built in functions.

the only problem i'm having is with firestarter, everytime i try to run firestarter from CLI it comes up with a pop-up that says : "Firestarter requires a Linux 2.4 or later kernel to function"

i've tried uninstalling and reinstalling via source as well as a tgz file, nothing seems to be working.

If you look on the firestarter homepage it only supports kernel's upto 2.5. I change to kmyfirewall when I went to a 2.6 kernel.

I have issues running Firestarter also, even under 2.4.##.
It will run for a few minutes then die with segmentation faults...

I first installed the .tgz. When it had continued crashes I thought "ok, I will just build the sucker directly" I got the source and built it to the system... AND still it is wack...

It works fine when it is running and did build me a pretty good table base.. Which by-the-way should be hand tweaked in the console with iptables....
I guess it did what I wanted - saved lots of typing....

thanks for the input. didn't know firestarter couldn't run on 2.6.5
i'll just try to type and build a firewall using iptables then. it'll take loads of typing, but whatever goes... LOL..
thanks again!

I noticed that Firestarter is not supported in 2.6.x, but I'm running it on a couple of boxes with the 2.6.5 kernel and it works jes'fine, thank-you.