how to install hardware devices
 

hi all
i'm on slackware 10.1 and i'm trying to install my hardware device drivers
i've searched around a lot of manuals , 5 days in front of pc and got nothing
all i got are : modules = drivers , i've to load modules , compile them , get source of kernal , get source of modules , ...........etc
what are these things ?
i want to know how to compile module and link it to kernal
really i fed up rebooting my system to log into windows to search internet and thereafter reboot again to log into slack to try some solutions
please anyone help me to get my hardware installed to browse internet and start learning this slack . i've (no sound, no high resolution, no nic, nomodem)

Your right, modules are drivers to get hardware working (simply put).
The modules come from the kernel (remember, I'm keep'in it simple here for you ;) )
And you compile your kernel (sometimes, if you want to).


Are you running the stock slack 2.4.xx kernel?
(type uname -r to find out)

Do you have 'hotplug' starting at boot?
(pkgtool -> setup -> [X] infront of 'hotplug' ?? The stock slack kernel has a LOT of modules,
and hotplug can load (most if not all) of them for you ).

Once you can get online at least, then post your " lspci " output - that would help some too. (I'd think its unreasonable to ask you to write down, and then retype all of that)

<edited> By the way, how do you get on line, your modem or NIC? </edited>
-tw

yes i'm runing stock slack kernal version 2.4.29

and have hotplug starting at boot

lspcii get online by nic

no nic - done

no modem - http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ ???
I don't know - havn't used a modem in years... sorry. You need it with your nic?

no high res - you ran xorgconfig ? that should get you atleast 1024x768 running on vesa drviers...
or use the generic xorg-provided 'nv' driver ? did you try the proper nvidia drivers?

no sound - did you run alsaconf ? and?

tell what you tried & the results
-tw

alsaconf has configured my sound card
and it seems you are right about vga card i'm on 1024*768 but i think i can get more resolution
cause vga card support more than rez
at the end what about nic it's very important one

You'll need the (proprietary) drivers from nVidia to get full 3D accelleration and higher res. Be aware that some older cards are not supported by the latest release of the driver. Search back throught the archives (read the release notes for a list of supported cards).

Installation is (in my limited experience of 3 machines w/ nvidia) relatively painless. Run the installation script from nVidia, the run xorgsetup and (re)start X.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

For the NIC try:

Note: Those are the names of the kernel modules for the 2.6 kernel - they may be different for 2.4 (but unlikely).

You can verify what modules are loaded by doing (as root) lsmod.

Hope this helps

Cheers,

Owen

The NICs you've are very common, so I'm pretty sure they're detected by default, check that with: ifconfig -a
if you see ethX, then they're detected, you just need to tell us how you connect to internet to tell you the next steps.

i tried modprobe 8139 and nothing
when typed lsmod i've seen 8139too 0 value (i think it's not detected) and all i can see with different value is sound card only

however ifconfig gave me eth0, eth1 with 0 values
i can't ping my default gateway , i can ping only the local loopback

regarding to how do i connect to internet ?
i connect via another pc and the both pcs are connected to switch
but i think it's not our issue

If you see eth0 and eth1 then both cards are detected, run netconfig and setup the right values. Probably you're connected to a router which DHCP, so configure netconfig with DHCP, when it asks for a DHCP hostname leave it blank. You won't be able to ping until you get a IP address, which you'll get with DHCP.

that's what happend
#netconfig
#askes for hostname and domain couldn't skip this step
#set dhcp hostname i left it blank
still can't ping
#ifconfig eth0 up
still can't ping
#ifconfig eth1 up
still can't ping

You don't have to skip, assign yourself a hostname and domain (like slack for hostname and myhouse for domain).
Well, you should try to see if you use DHCP or not, do you have another machine to check that? If it's using windows, goto network and check if you get a ip automatically or you've one manually assigned.

sorry friends i was away from my pcs
i still have the same problem
i've a dhcp and my machine should get its ip address automatically

As gbonvehi said, assign yourself a hostname and domain with 'netconfig'.

Then try typing:
dhcpcd eth0
or
dhcpcd eth1

then check with 'ifconfig'
and see if local IP's are assigned (ex. 192.186.x.xxx ).

-tw

ooh
thanks tw001_tw it works now but ask you something
what does dhcpcd as i'm still not familiar with man pags

mandrakelinux, get familiar with them, they don't bite ;)

Quoted from dhcpcd man page: