Well, not only is this my first time here in the forum but I am also relatively new to installing and using Linux privately. I used to work with RedHat 6.something two years ago but never really had to install it.

So, I have it up and running now (which went rather smoothly) but I still have to get all the features I nees set up.

1) Linux tells me that it can't find (or recognize ... not sure right now) my soundcard which is a pretty old Soundblaster 16 ISA. So how do I fix that?

2) I get my (external) Modem to dial up but then it hangs right up again. Does it need some Script or such?

3) I mounted three of my Win98 partitions yesterday while logged in as root. I edited the fstab file to achieve that. Will Linux remember that and automatically re-mount those partitions once I start my PC back up or are there still some more configurations I have to do for that? If so ... which?


Thanks

Pal

see the man page of fstab or this link: http://nodevice.com/sections/ManIndex/man0411.html

Hi pal_o_matic

If you've edited your /etc/fstab correctly, that will be sufficient to have your distribution automatically mount those partitions on boot up.

So 2): How do you do that? I mean I use KDE, and during install everything was taken care of, I just click on the icon to get a connection. Do you use wvdial? You need someplace to store the initialization strings (AT Z etc.), phone number, password of your provider etc. ... ?

It seemed to go rather well automatically. The modem dials (very audibly) and after the usual squeaks and screams and scratches kppp exits with error code 16 which - according to the manpage - means that the modem just hung up.
I think I read that I can provide kppp with a script which tells when to expect or send what in order to connect properly but I have no idea how or what it is supposed to look like.

In which way exactly do you start the modem dialing?

Using the kppp interface provided. To describe it in more detail I'd have to be sitting right in front of it ...

Provided by what? Come on man, gimme some info: Console? GUI? Which one? What do you type / click on?

GUI under KDE if I'm not mistaken.

OK, let me try to remember what I did last night:
- Clicked the little red hat to open up that start up menu kinda thingywhatchamacallit
- clicked on the program group for internet
- clicked the group for more internet apps (though I am not certain about this one)
- clicked kppp

- up came the kppp interface, using the settings button I was able to fiddle with some settings and have my modem checked
- I entered the number for the service provider (freenet call by call it was btw ... works under windows)
- closed the settings screen
- chose freenet as the ISP and hit dial

... you know the rest ...

(damn my language ... been reading too much Penny Arcade lately)

Woke you up, did it? But here ends the fun, since I have no experience with Red Hat.

Two ideas. First (silly): Did you double check your password? You know, sh*t happens ... Second, as a workaround, go to a console and type man wvdial and find out how to set up it's parameters (it is a little program to start your connection from console). After you have established a connection any application can take it over, e.g. a browser .