Hello there.

I've got a huge problem - I've been running Slackware 9.1 with Kernel 2.6.2 a while now without any modules at all. I had thought this OK because everything was working. What I didn't know, however, is IPTABLES is loaded through modules, and my computer is very insecure without any firewall.

Here is how I install my Kernel:

First I extraced the whole kernel source to /usr/src/linux (I removed the version extension for simplicity.)

Then:

su
cd /usr/src/linux/
make mrproper (should remove everything except the source.)
make xconfig (I've enabled loadable modules and forced module unloading.)
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make modules_install install (as described in the text file, just in case.)


Now, I'm taking a look into /lib/modules/2.6.2/kernel - the directory's pretty much empty, only contains dummy.ko, but no ip_tables or any other files like in my other kernel modules directory: :/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter

What could possibly be wrong?

There is no need to run:
make dep (depreciated with 2.6)
or:
make modules_install install (to my knowledge this has never done anything)

Did you choose to compile iptables as modules? can you post your .config file.

You might want to read this page 1st.

http://durham.randomwire.com/article...cle=kernel.php

It's pretty straight forward.

Hi.

Thanks for the replies. I mananged to make the modules appear by configuring IPTABLES as modules (doh!).