Hi. modules are loaded in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
