Migrated from Red Hat 9 to Slackware 9. After battering around everything is working smooth and fine - including apps that refused to work under RH9 - whooppee!

Anyway on boot an ethernet driver for the SB1394 onboard Sounblaster Audigy tries to load and fails - 8139cp. Isn't a major problem as it's not needed but I've realised I don't have a clue how to stop it loading as it's mildly annoying seeing all the error output flash by on boot. I've had a look through all the rc files only thing I could relate to it is entries for eth1 (could be unrelated) which I commented out.

How do I a stop it trying to load?

You have to add the module to hotplugs blacklist in /etc/hotplug/blacklist

Cheers, that's it sorted.

Just a note the speed increase over redhat on booting and using gnome is
very,very noticeable, super

What is hotplug? Could that be causing the problem I am having in this thread? Basically, my sound card is detected, but then the emu-script fails, and there is no sequencer (bass/treble) support when I am done booting. However if I rmmod the emu10k1 module and modprobe it, it works fine. Maybe this hotplug thing, whatever it is, is already loading an emu10k1 module and that is conflicting with the emu-script?

Try adding the emu10k1 module to hotplugs blacklist and uncomment the /sbin/modprobe emu10k1 line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and see what happens.