Re: Slack 9 problems!!!

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978@earthlink.net>]

Thanks, this was vary helpful.

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug <wearable@shawcable.com>
To: <speakup@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
>
>
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