Hi, I've just got a Red Hat 7.3 system going on a Sony VAIO laptop using SpeakUp and a DecTalk Express. I've got some, inevitable, questions: 1 - I ran sndconfig and my sound card was recognised and played the sample sound - do I need to install alsa as well? If so, why so? 2 - I have an internal modem and I've downloaded Linux drivers for it, but these require the kernel sources and a recompile. I've installed the kernel source package from the SpeakUp modified Red Hat site (since this is the kernel I've currently got installed - 2.4.18-10spk), but I'm now floundering as I expected to find a /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-10spk directory and there isn't one. What I do have is a linux-2.4.18-3 (created from my original Red Hat media before I installed the modified 2.4.18-10spk) and a directory called redhat. I know I can delete the linux-2.4.18-3 directory but where do I find my new source tree? There's lots of stuff that might suit in the redhat directory, but it's been a long, long time since I recompiled a kernel and I don't want to blow it now, so can somebody offer me some pointers? 3 - My machine identifies itself as "localhost" and I'd like to change this - I've tried using the hostname command, but the setting doesn't seem to get preserved. My machine has a fixed IP address and participates in my ethernet LAN. 4 - Once I get my modem up and running, how do I configure Internet access? The Red Hat Getting Started Guide only refers to graphics mode configuration? Many thanks in advance to anybody willing to help. Thanks anyway to Janina for getting me this far - she knows what a battle it's been! Tim
