I'm pretty new to linux in general, but I recently tried out slackware 9.1 and was able to get everything working fine. My hardware was detected and everthing installed fine.

I now just tried a install of 10, and have run into problems. The first problem was the cd did not boot, but I used my old slack disk and was able to boot and then ran setup from the slackware 10 disk. Installation went fine. But now, my system doesn't recognize my soundcard or network card, both are onboard. The mother board is an ECS K7nS5a. Wierd that everything was perfect on an older version of slack, but now I'm having trouble on 10.

Any help would be appreciated to get this worked out.

Most likely a difference in the kernels. The newer kernel is probably lacking support for the sound card and eth, else the support is modular and the modules for them aren't loaded. You should be able to identify what you have with "lspci". Once you know what they are, then check the kernel config to see if it has support for them.

I can see my devices with lspci. I'm a linux newb, so how do I go about checking the kernel config? And does this mean I must find a new kernel, is it hard for me to install a new kernel. Any specifics you can give would be great.

Thanks.

If your sound card in lspci then Slackware found them but they are not configured. However,
Question: how do you know that sound card in not configured?
Question 2: during install you were prompted to install network, did you do it then?

Yes, I installed network. But if I type ifconfig eth0 I get "error fetching interface information: Device not found",

And when I run alsaconf I get "No supported PnP or PCI card found"

what's error on alsamixer as root?

function snd_ctrl_open failed for default: no such device.

chmod 666 /dev/dsp*
chmod 666 /dev/mixer*

If this doesn't help then we both know the answer, right?
1.remove all alsa
2. Install all alsa
And yes, one more thing. Alsa requires reboot after install, so do not forget

P.S
I've just had a premonition!
There is a possibility that your sound card is not supported by kernel.....

I always had a problem with alsa, so I would
just go to http://www.alsa-project.org
and grab the source, and compile. Perhaps you could
post the output of `lspci` so we can see what
module your nic requires. Good Luck.

-tank

I would agree with you, naturally, IF it weren't for this little thingy:

The problem is that my hardware doesn't seem to be supported. But wouldn't a newer kernel have the same support as an older kernel? It's hard for me to cut and paste since I'm on another machine and my network card isn't working.

But, it's all SIS. It shows everything, my ethernet, multimedia, etc... But, none of it seems to be detected other than here. Everything just seemed to work with 9.1

Not necessarily. For example:
year ago I used Suse 9.1 with all my hardware supported.
After downloading and trying to install Suse 9.2 I discovered that "Silicon Image" SATA Controller which comes with most nowadays mobos is not supported anymore.
You just do not know where to expect a surprize

So where do I go from here?

If you want to stick with SLackware then, please, understand that 9.1 is NOT outdated release. Think, that difference is alltogether of several months. It's not Windoze that releases OS every 2 years. If you liked 9.1 and everything worked with it, then stick with it. Installing new softs does not really disturb it.

BTW, I noticed that some of Moderators of this forum (MasterC uses 8.1) uses even earlier version
Good luck