FYI: >become root with this command: >su >(type your root password) >cd /etc/rc.d/ >joe rc.modules For Slackware, I don't think there is a rc.modules file. Put the lines in rc.local, it should be fine. Make sure that rc.local is executable (chmod +x rc.local if it isn't). Commands in that file will be run for you at each boot. Khali