Control ALT F1 trouble

[iamanewbie]

I have knoppix installed on HD

When I do contgrol alt F1 or F2, my entire screen has lines like "IN=ETH0 out=....... mac=..... " , they keep scrolling up the screen and I can't type anything.

I think it was my firestarter firewall , which i believe I deleted already.

What's wrong?

Thanks

[Superstoned]

tried ctrl-C? there must be some error which causes these messages, I dunno what it is... I'd google the error msg...

btw you have a normal debian distro now, you should seek help somewhere else

[Dave_Bechtel]

==You shouldn't tell him to go somewhere else, he installed off a Knoppix CD and should reasonably expect a response here if someone knows the answer. However, posting in the hd-installed forum would be a better place.

@ Newbie - do a ' ps ax ' and see if firestarter is still running - if it is, you can issue a ' killall firestarter '. Otherwise it almost looks like a tcpdump... To get around all the error msgs, you may have to issue it from an X terminal, and use sudo.

tried ctrl-C? there must be some error which causes these messages, I dunno what it is... I'd google the error msg...

btw you have a normal debian distro now, you should seek help somewhere else

[horo]

Hi,

this are syslog messages. To change it once:

dmesg -n 2

To change it permanently after next reboot:

echo kernel/printk = 2 4 1 7 >> /etc/sysctl.conf
sysctl -p

This changes the log level to crit(2) and you will see only critical errors on the screen.

Ciao Martin