Also, a lot of hardware can be detected by using the hotplug utility. It will configure hardware at boot time. There should have been a question about whether or not to install hotplug support when you performed the install of Slackware 9.0. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Adam Myrow staggered into view and mumbled: > Yes, Redhat is very automated when it comes to detecting hardware and > loading it up. This process also added about 10 seconds to the startup > time for me. It's good and bad. Going from Redhat to Slackware is a > great way to discover how vastly different two Linux distributions can be. > Slackware is very much a distribution for somebody who wants to learn how > to set up things manually and how things actually work. I've found that > most Slackware users detest Redhat and vise versa. They are, IMHO, really > designed for different types of people. I am the type who likes to > tinker, so Slackware appeals to me. > > What sort of modem do you have? Is it PCI or ISA? If it's ISA, you may > need to run a Plug 'N Play utility to get it working. You may also need > setserial to configure it. You can edit /etc/serial.conf to give the > right parameters to set serial, and then remove the "#" in front of the > line in /etc/rc.d/rc.S to call on the rc.serial script. It is disabled > by default because I guess it can hang the computer if it tries to > configure a nonexistent port. The scripts in the /etc/rc.d directory > are good to look at because they explain fairly well what they are > doing. /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a good place for customized stuff like > setting up Speakup the way you like it. > > For ISA Plug 'n Play, there is a kernel module called isa-pnp. Try > running "modprobe isa-pnp" by hand and type dmesg and read the last few > lines to see if it found and configured anything. If it did, add a > "/sbin/modprobe isa-pnp" to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. For the > network, run netconfig. It lets you choose either DHCP or static IP. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
