Problems with Slackware.

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hello, list. As suggested by a couple of you I am trying out the Slackware 8
distribution as apposed to the distributions I had been working with. Thus
far I like it, but are having many new user problems.
First, problem is dealing with PPP.The directions, and the default option
was to use the kernel from the boot disk, and so I used it.
Now however my hardware is not working at all. I ran pppsetup, and when I
tried to run pppd it said the kernel doesn't have  ppp support.
Also I can't seam to find sndconfig. I was a Red Hat user before so forgive
my ignorance on how about getting sound going.
If anyone on the list would be kind enough to walk me step by step through
getting ppp going, getting sound going, a network up and running and really
teaching me the guidelines for Linux I would appreciate it.
Although having speakup built into Slackware is pretty awesome. I'm not
having problems with speakup, but Slackware at the moment is dead, and I can
not do much with it.
I have a feeling the directions in directing me to use the speakup.i kernel
was wrong, because it doesn't seam like I've got a single module working.
I'm also use to Red Hat's audomodule loader so I don't really know about
manually loading a module myself.
Do I have to build a kernel, or what? I thought you just installed this and
it worked with ppp, soundcards, and such out of the box.
Please, help me with this, and walk me through it. I'm actually going to
give Linux a real try, but until I can actually get it working I can not do
much with it.