Slack 9 problems!!!

[Alex Snow]

Hi.  modules are loaded in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.

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On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:

> Hello, list. If anyone could please help solve these issues I would
> appreciate it right now. Coming from a Red Hat background I am completely
> and absolutely frustrated with Slackware's lack of features and setup tools,
> and am at a loss to get the basic functionality of the system even working.
>
> Issue one.
> In Red Hat it comes with the kudzu pnp maniger which detects such things as
> network cards, and other devices and automatically configures them, and puts
> them in /etc/modules.conf. Slackware it appears does not remotely have
> anything that nice, and I am left wondering if it pnp's anything, or do I
> have to insmod every single module I need, and have to manually configure
> everything?
> Issue two:
> I assume any modules that need to be loaded on startup need to be loaded in
> /etc/modules. However, without seeing a /etc/modules I do not know the
> syntax, and how it is suppose to look. For example in /etc/modules.conf in
> Red Hat to load my nic it would look like:
> alias eth0 ne2pci
> Is the same true under Slackware or is it completely different.
> Issue three:
> Does something special have to be done with setting up modems under
> Slackware? I tried sending a simple dial string to my modem on every serial
> port, and I did not get a blip, beep, pop, etc.
> Which means Slackware can not find my modem. since Slackware is so alien to
> me I am not surprised, but I also can not get it going.
> issue four:
> How on earth do you activate and turn off services under Slackware!!!!! I
> tried chkconfig and service and Slackware mouthed off at me saying that they
> didn't exist. Mandrake and Red Hat have these tools, and I assumed that
> service and chkconfig were like universal tools for loading and killing
> services. What on earth does Slackware use?
> Issue five:
> I can not find my module for my nic in the installed modules. Naturally, I
> even though I am dreading the thought I assume I have to compile a from
> scratch kernel. Something I never had to do regularly with Red Hat. Where is
> the slackware kernel source, and I hope it has speakup built in, because
> there is no way I can reach speakup's cvs server under present condition.
> Well, I think that is a start, and when I solve these five issues I will ask
> more questions I have. Unfortunately, the list is quite long at this point.
>
>
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