FRESH NEW ON LINUX MANDRAKE 9.2. AND SINCE MID-DECEMBER I`M TRYING TO CONFIGURE
MY WHAT SO SAID AUTO-RECOGNIZED SOUND-CARD A VERY SIMPLE `CREATIVE SOUND , SOUND BLASTER 16`, I`VE BEEN WASTING HOURS ON ALSA.ORG AND NIET, NOTHING, NADA working THIS IS MY FIRST.

AFTER MY PRINTER A VERY SIMPLE CANON BJC-4200 ON ROUTER SMC, BECAUSE WE SHARE-IT, DO WORK VERY FINE ON WINDOWS98. ON MY CONFIGURATION I DO ASK TO USE THE ACTUAL WINDOWS CONFIG AND NIET, NOTHING ,NADA working. THE NICE PART OF IT INTERNET WORKING SLOW BUT FINE.

SO IF ANY HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO HELP ME THAT WILL BE APPRECIATED. AND REMEMBER I WANT SIMPLE , DIRECT , LOGICAL & EFFECTIVE ANSWERs

Stop crying loudly first please.

The easiest way to get your sound card working is to recompile your kernel and to use OSS (easier and faster than Alsa). Alsa is damn very consusing I agree.

About your printer, go to www.linuxprinting.org, there's easy how to. It'll takes some time but it should be easy to follow.

Btw... Linux isn't Windoze, don't believe your system will do everything for you.

I hope someone can help me before I go back to Windows.

I am new and already getting frustrated

I have installed Suse 9 on 3 computers of mine. A hp desktop and two IBM laptops. My HP sound card does not work, it is a RocKwell and I can not get my wireless lan cards to work on the IBM laptops. The cards info is AMD AM 1772(tm) wireless lan chipset pcmia. I may have found drivers to download but how to I install them if I have the right ones. I am new and feel stupid, I know nothing about what to do. I need
to be treated like a newbie baby. Please help before I return to Windows.
>
>Brian

Thank Half Elf , as per your info and 2 good hours of my life today, «i finelly fix my problem
F.U.C.K (Future Un-Clear Kde) LINUX. I`ve never seen something so dumm. SCO is right to open free every boby doing , thinking is right w/out controling structure.

i.e goto alsa for sound , goto smc.com then tzo.com for my router and printer and no time I had a direct answer . The good thing about Linux at least we know how the cumputer was at Flinstone era.

This after noon if you see at south east three chrome flying object in the sky it my Linux cd`s I live in Brossard.

Thank again and remember a good system is been called KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)

you just suck. Keep on your Windoze XP, if you want someone else to do the stuff for you. Of course, you'll stay stupid doing it. There should be warning in the Linux installation, something like "if you think powerful tool are easy to use, stop the installation right now".
There is nothing to say : you suck.

Thank but the last time I did check I didn`t insult you personly and I also don`t give any two thumb for windows. If you want something effective, logic is the prime , logic structure.

You have a router you do this , if you have a printer you to that ( chain link CPU > ROUTER > PRINTER ; end.

And if some-one can create a configuration path graphic base on chain link presentation.
Half of Linux problem will be eliminated.

And if you read back your Mandrake 9.1 book it is clearly writen SOUNDBLASTER are auto-recognized. Look-like you are not the one who replaced is sound card after my first on didn`t work, and I end up with the same problem. NO SOUND

And PLEASE never insult my inteligence again.

Yes I made a post with a problem and hopeful this statement was not to me to.

I am new to Linux and very lost, was told of this site for help and with you being on this site for a few year I would think that you would have some great help and wisdom for new folks and over look any bad apples.

I am sorry but if this comment was addressed to all us newbies then maybe you should not be on here. Like I said I would think with your knowledge that you would help not put people down.

If I am wrong I apologize

B Sill


Here was my post
I hope someone can help me before I go back to Windows.

I am new and already getting frustrated

I have installed Suse 9 on 3 computers of mine. A hp desktop and two IBM laptops. My HP sound card does not work, it is a RocKwell and I can not get my wireless lan cards to work on the IBM laptops. The cards info is AMD AM 1772(tm) wireless lan chipset pcmia. I may have found drivers to download but how to I install them if I have the right ones. I am new and feel stupid, I know nothing about what to do. I need
to be treated like a newbie baby. Please help before I return to Windows.
>
>Brian

Half_Elf,

You have been a member of this site long enough to know that that sort of post in a help thread is unnecessary. I do not expect to see that from someone with 1k+ posts and 2 years on LQ.

Lets get this thread back on track.

Conaroz and Sill,

Please post your distros and what you have done so far to get these working.

Thank you.

Xavier thanks for picking up on the issue. In the post I would like someone to teach me how to install a driver. My sound card is a Rockwell installed in a HP Pavilion 9680c and I am running SuSe 9 pro. I believe I have found the driver I just do not know what to do from there. I need baby steps.

I did put in another card and SuSe picked up on it and installed it. That I guess is what I am use to. I want to get the Rockwell working if someone will help me.

I also have a issue with wireless cards but I believe if I am taught the sound card I can get the wirless.

Thank You

What is your driver name? Does it end in .rpm or .tar.gz?

I have not downloaded the driver yet, not real sure which one to use.
The link where I found them is here. They do end in RPM . http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ript...s-suse-x86.php

Here is all the info I found for my Sound Card=
Rockwell Semi Conducters

Rockwell

Master Riptide PCI audio

Riptide PCI audio legacy

Thanks for any help

Also for future ref. what would be differant between rpm. tar. gz ? And would you suggest a book that might help me, I saw a book Suse for dummies?


Thanks

For my side a good old Clone pentium III, first set with a Avance Logic sound card > no sound
Then went on ALSA.ORG , I download something to check actual configuration > no sound card found.

Install a Creative Sound-Blaster 16 that I had on the side run back the test > no sound card found.

remove the sound card , reboot , shut-down , re-install the card , re-boot > no sound.

Now for Printer a very simple Canon BJC-4200 run thru a router smc (hint the light on the router light flash at some point , but not more.

Sill - in a console, type in "uname -r", without the quotes and post back the result

Conaroz - try this page. I think you need the OSS - as far as I know, alsa is on the way out and oss on the way in. As far as printing goes, try here. Sorry they are generic answers, but you haven't supplied your distribution name and so I can't suggest any tools to try.

I get "2.4.21-166-defaut" and I still have the sound blaster loaded if I need to take it out.

Thanks

Sill, you need either of the top 2 drivers (the Athlon if you have an .... Athlon processor (AMD Athlon) and the other if you don't )

Download the file to a directory in your home directory.

In Konqueror or Nautilus or whatever, right click it and select to extract.

Open a console, type in "cd /home/yourhomedire/thenewdirectory" without the quotes.

Then type in "su" again without the quotes and hit enter. You will see the #symbol just before where you type. This means you are now temporarily root.

Type in rpm -ivh riptide-0.6lnxtbeta03122800_k2.4.21_166_default-1suse.i586.rpm (I am assuming that this is what the zip file will extract as and that you have an Intel processor, if not, change this to whatever the extracted file is).

Now hit enter.

The file should install.

At the end, type in exit to become a normal user again.