I just recently installed Slack 9.0, and have yet to be able to get it online. I have DSL service through Qwest/MSN( Can't afford the prices of cable, not to mention out here if you are not running their software so they can get their snoop reports they disable your access) anyway I have the MSN DSL1000 modem, and it was hooked through USB. I grabbed usbview, and I assume that items in red are items that are not working right or aren't supported, and the items in black are working/supported. The DSL Modem was in Red, I don't have an ethernet card, I know they are cheap but I cannot afford one right now. I managed to obtain from a friend, a linksys compact usb lan adapter. It's a touch smaller then a USB drive, and has a little flap you can pop up and plug your ethernet cable into it, works gret in windows, but still not working in Linux. However with this device hooked up, it is in black text in usbview, so it should be working, but nada. Tried the "mknod /dev/usb/ttyACM0 c 166 0" commands, and nada, I tried modprobe eth0 then insmod eth0, worked for modprobe but not insmod (had to do these to get my USB cable modem working back in the days I had cable before comcrap tookover), I'm at a loss here and pulling my hair out. I find no reason to use linux unless I can get it online as most of my time on the compute is spent online. I'd much rather unlock the power of linux online then being refrained in a straightjacket by using windows. Anybody got any idea's? For either the modem through usb, or the modem through the little adapter? It's the compact one, not the regular one.

are all the usb modules you need loaded?
check /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
remove all the #'s where you need support for
if that's done
$ init 1 (you'll go back to runlevel 1)
log back in
$ init 3 (or 4 whatever u work in)

Thanks nesware, I got it working, Ibelievemost of it was what you had suggested, I had a couple of other little things, hopefully it will work as user too. One other little question, you might know. I am running KDE, and the biggest problem I have with a linux GUI is the mouse movement it's too slow. I know I can set accelleration, but it's just not the same. I much prefer the speed of the mouse in windows., which I have cranked almost all the way up. Is there a way that you know of to set mouse speed higher? Cranking the acceleration and dropping the threshold result in a mouse that moves so fast accross the screen it cannot be seen, nor controlled. I've messed with thos settings already. My desk area is limited and I don't like having to pick up the mouse 2 or 3 times to get accross the screen. Imagine how horrid it would be if I had a Virtual Desktop that was larger then my screen? LOL Thanks for the help.

ok... you need to be root to do all this stuff..
first backup ur /etc/X11/XF86Config
cd /etc/X11
cp XF86Config XF86Config.old
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config
then choose the options of the mouse pointer
change settings for resolution (i've mine set to 500, my screen res = 1200x800)
anyway.... look around for docs on google or man pages... cos SampleRate and other settings might help too...
i've opened kde a couple a times :-) ... i know that after opening the config panel mouse section... the mouse speed is changed... so maybe in kde there's another way to do this at start.. wouldn't know...

Ok cool thanks. I had to reinstall everything because there I was going along happily and some prick rooted me, and killed my X server as well as other things. Deleted part of the X server, deleted part of other system files. Big mess. Whoever it was was in the proccess of editing the log files when I killed the system. I reinstalled everything, then went to inetd.conf to comment out all the daemons to prevent them from firing up since i hae no need to be running http, finger, ftp, smtp, etc. I'm not running a server, not am I on a network. Then I find out those daemons are no longer started on boot or by the crontab in inetd.conf so I have no idea what to do. I need to know which file to edit n. order to stop those services from firing up at boot so I don't get 0wned again.

If the server is mentioned uncommented in /etc/inetd.conf , comment them . Then restart inetd with a command like killall -HUP inetd .
If there is a /etc/rc.d/rc.startup script for a service remove the executable rights from the rc. script, for example : chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd .
And in 9.0 you have to check /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 as well since some services are directly started from it, so comment what you don't want. This is changed in 9.1.
And there are security fixes on ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...ches/packages/ or a mirror. You'd better install these as well.
Good luck.