I just recently installed red hat 7.2 or 3, I forgot (Not at home right now).

*Just to comment, can the install get any EASIER!? lol. I was thinking it was going to be somewhat difficult, like people say linux noobs first install, but oh well.

1) Anyhow, here is where the noob-ness kicks in i guess. When it loads up, and it does that thing where it scrolls through all these checks and says 'OK' in green or 'FAILED' or something in red, there is a sound driver problem. I'm not using an extension card for sound, I'm using whats built right into the motherboard.

...my hardware list is at the bottom

No sound...?

As for the network. In windows I get DSL from my router (which has red hat as well -- runs router and firewall daemon).

3) I went to network configuration -> add device -> ethernet -> eth0 -> Intel(R) Pro 100. THen it gave me some error like could not initialize something or another, and I couldn't add my ethernet device. Again, I'm using the ethernet built right into my motherboard.

Again, hardware list at the bottom

Any ideas why this doesn't work?

Here is ALL my hardware:

Computer: ACPI Uniprocessor computer

Disk Drive: WDC WD1000JB-00CRA0

Display Adapter: Radeon 7000 series

DVD/CD-ROM Drives: Plextor CD-R PX-W2410A, TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502

Floppy Disk Drive: Y-E DATA USB-FDU USB Device

Human Interface Devices: HID-Compliant game controller, USB Human interface device

IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers: Intel(R) 82801DB Ultra ATA Controller, Primary IDE channel, Secondary IDE Channel

Keyboard: Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

Mice and other pointing devices: Microsoft PS/2 Mouse

Monitor: MAG XJ700T

Network Adapters: Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection

Ports (COM & LPT): Communications Port (COM2), Printer Port (LPT1)

Processors: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26 GHz

Sound, video, and game controllers: Audio Codecs, Legacy Audio Drivers, Legacy Video Capture Devices, Media Control Devices, SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio, Video Codecs

System Devices: ACPI Fixed feature button, Direct Memory Access Controller, Intel 82801DB LPC Interface Controller, - 24C0, Intel 82801DB PCI Bridge - 244E, Intel 82801DB/DBM SMBus Controller - 24C3, Intel 82802 Firmware Hub Device, Intel 82845G/GL Processor to AGP Controller - 2561, Intel 82845G/GL Processor to I/O Controller - 2560, ISAPNP Read Data Port, Microcode Update device, Microsoft ACPI-compliant system, Motherboard resources, Motherboard resources, Numeric Data Processor, PCI Bus, Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator, Programmable Interrupt Controller, System Board, System CMOS/Real time clock, System speaker, System timer, Terminal service device redirector

Universal Serial Bus controllers: Intel PCI to USB Enhance Host controller, Intel 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C2, Intel 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C4, Intel 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C7, USB 2.0 Root Hub, USB Printing support, USB Root Hub, USB Root Hub, USB Root Hub, Y-E Data USB Floppy

pleeeaaaassssse HELP ME

trying running the "netconfig" program to see if that helps with your network card.

try running the the "sndconfig" program to get your sound working.

Please check /var/log/dmesg for any messages that occur at boot time referring to either your eth0 NIC or to your sound problem.

-KevinJ