Thanks, this was vary helpful. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug <wearable@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 3:40 AM Subject: Re: Slack 9 problems!!! > Slacking ... > > For setting ethernet, there is a utility called netconfig. > It will probe and find the ethernet card, and it asks you > for IP address and DNS info. It will write the info to the > /etc/hosts and other network config files. > > > do I have to insmod every single module I need, and have to > > manually configure everything? > > Look in /etc/rc.d ... you will see rc files for network and > cdrom and other devices. The netconfig utility mentioned > above will write the proper info into rc.netdevice and the > rc.inet files. You typically need to edit rc.modules file. > In there are all of the insmod (modprobe) commands. You > will see that there are tons of them in there but most are > commented out. For most setups there is not much you need > to do in here except audio configuration. Look for the > lines that correspond to your audio hardware. > > > I assume any modules that need to be loaded on startup need > > to be loaded in /etc/modules. > > Slack uses a BSD kind of init method, rather than system V. > Like I said, look in /etc/rc.d. > > > alias eth0 ne2pci > > You can set up aliases like this in /etc/modules.conf, but > this is for the kernel module loader to autoload stuff. It > is often not even necessary to put stuff in there. I usually > have most of my module info in /etc/rc.d. Sometimes you do > need stuff in /etc/modules.conf to pass parameters to > modules on load, but it depends ... > > > Does something special have to be done with setting up modems > > under Slackware? > > Just like with networking, there is script for configuring > ppp for modem access. Running the script asks you questions > about your ISP and such and generates files for pppd. Then > typically all you need to do is type a single ppp command > to dial in. Use the pppsetup to configure your modem. After > running that, ppp-go does the dialup ... > > > 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. > > See above. There is a symbolic link /dev/modem which will > point to a serial port. Check the /dev directory and see if > you have /dev/modem. > > > How on earth do you activate and turn off services under Slackware!!!!! > > What services do you want to activate or turn off? > The modules are configured in /etc/rc.d. As I said this is > a BSD-ish setup not SVR4 like Redhat. Sorry but this is not > very automated. This is good and bad at times. > > > Where is the slackware kernel source > > If you installed it, the source should be in /usr/src/linux. > If you didn't, run pkgtool and install it ... > > You might want to check out the slackware support forums. > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
