Re: start up problems
Before a guru jumps in with the right answer, maybe I can at least
point you in the right direction. See below.
Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net> wrote:
> Hello. I use Etch, and occasionally run into some start up problems.
> As it's booting, it will read something like this:
>
> PPDEV: user-space parallel port driver
Do you need the parallel port? If not, you could blacklist the relevant
module
> DROPPED IN= OUT=PPRO PREC= MAC= SRC=123 456 789 ...
This looks like a message from the firewall. Did you activate it? What
frontend (shorewall, firestarter, ...)?
> And it just continues like this. Eventually it will load, but it won't
> connect to my adsl, and everything runs very slowly. Rebooting
> sometimes helps, and unplugging, and then replugging my adsl modem also
> helps in re-establishing the connection. It usually occurs after
> loading this ppdev parallel port driver.
>
> Is there something I can do about this? Am I missing a library, or
> package, or something that will prevent this? Sometimes it boots up
> fine, and I don't have to worry about it. But more often then not I
> have to reboot it (sometimes reboot numerous times) before it loads
> correctly.
>
> Mark
You should specify the type of ADSL, how did you configure it, when did
these problems start to appear (new package/hardware/application?), ...
Googleing for the error messages also works most of the time.
Regards,
Andrei
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