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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
