Problems with Slackware.

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi Thomas,

For both pppd and sound to work, you need to load the respective kernel modules first.
Look at and approperately edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
. Hth.
Greg


On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:00:09PM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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