Before a guru jumps in with the right answer, maybe I can at least point you in the right direction. See below.
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]