I installed College Linux a few days back and am having a heckuva time getting some of my hardware working.

I downloaded the NVidia video drivers from NVidia's site as well as the unified driver but have had no luck... Can't get any sound, no network card (it is an onboard), and no 3d graphics.

Is there a walk through to get me through this? I think it might be a kernel issue but even after installing (using installpkg) a newer kernel I am still having no luck.

If it helps, CL is based on Slack 8.1.

Please help a newbie out.
-dave

Not that I'm any expert in getting hardware to work, for anyone who is here to help you you're going to need to provide more information. The name and manufacturer's of the specific hardware you're having trouble with, and the outputs of 'lspci' and 'dmesg' would be a good start.

It is all nvidia stuff...

I managed to get the graphics card working but still have had no luck on the onboard audio and video. The modules are there; when I do

insmod nvnet

or

insmod nvaudio

it tells me that they already exist but I still can't get any sound or access the network. I tried sndconfig and used the network configuration utility and neither helped-- sndconfig acknowledged that the card was there but said that it could not use it as there were no pre-configured drivers (I used the drivers from www.nvidia.com).

I am not sure which hardware you need-- what i have is:
AMD AthlonXP 2000+
Asus A79266- VM nForce 220D Chip
512 MB RAM

The network card and audio card are both onboard (nforce).

So, in a nutshell, I have installed the modules I need for this hardware, but how can I use them?

Thanks,
David

Okay, i have been playing with it a bit.

If I run insmod nvnet and THEN do netconfig, I can get on the Internet. How can I tell Linux to do this on every start up?

However, if I do insmod nvaudio and then sndconfig, I get a message acknowledging that the sound card is recognized but not supported. Does this mean I can't get any sound? Or is there a fix?

Thanks.
dave