Hey all.

Having chosen Slackware over SUSE, since so many have spoken highly of it, seems to be me to be a good idea, but being fairly new to linux I need a little help on configurating my SB Live and internet settings in Slackware 10.0.

I do have sound but it's distorted, sounds like music with white noise coming from a tube or pipe. I have no idea where or how to configure this.

As for internet, I'm behind a router, and from windows is used to manually set ip, gateway, dns and hostmask, but again, I don't know where.

If someone has any ideas about how, what and where to change things, I'd appreciate it. Keep in mind that I'm new to linux, so you might want to spell it out for me. Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Did you configure your networking to use DHCP during the install?

Hey.

I might not have... Think i didn't....how can I find out, and how do I install it ?

Thanks.

Type in the command netconfig as root, and it should let you go through and choose all the options you want.

Thank you, I'll take a look at it.

Regards.

I might be doing something wrong but it's not working. I did both the dhcp and static ip option. Neither worked. I might add that I'm using a SIS 900 onboard ethernet adapter, if any specific modules need to be loaded, I do not know. By the way, when asked for hostname and domain, what am I supposed to enter? Hostname and domain of my ISP ? And, yes, I need to use the static ip option for port forwarding reasons.

Regards.

I always just type in localhost and localdomain, but you can also leave it blank, or if you have a name for your computer you can use that too. Also, did you reboot the computer or restart the inetd service? You have to do that before the changes will take effect. To restart inetd, type in, as root, /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart.

host and domain are basically whatever you wanna call your computer and the domain that's hosting that name for you (www.no-ip.com is for instance a good free name hoster; if you're using it, your domain name would be "no-ip.org" or "no-ip.net", depending on what extension you choose when you signed up). If you don't have a hosting domain (which is completely unimportant to have if you're just starting out), just use "localdomain". For host you can type whatever you want if you are *not*having a name hosted, for instance "slackbox" or "localhost". Whatever tickles your fancy.



For your soundcard, have a look in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules... there's a bunch of cards listed in there that might be your particular card. If you find the correct one, just uncomment the line it's on by removing the #. If you can't find your card in that file, exit it without changing anything, and try typing "modprobe sb" at the command prompt (as root; type "su" to become root). Sometimes that works right away, sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't, let us know and also do a search on your soundcard on http://www.google.com/linux; it usually will come up with a HOWTO written by someone who uses the same soundcard (make sure you put the word "slackware" in your search as well).

-zsejk

Hey.

The internet connection is working now, It seems that I "forgot" to reboot the system.... /me slaps $me

/etc/rc.d/rc.modules shows this:
And modprobe sb shows this:
Thanks again.

Err... I'm currently trying to re-install Slackware after f-ing around with Fedora for a while, so I don't have a running system to check this, but... isn't /etc/rc.d/rc.modules a file? Like, type "pico /etc/rc.d/rc.modules" at the prompt and look through the file trying to find your soundcard.

Note that I might be wrong with the filename (again, have no running system), but if you go to /etc/rc.d by typing "cd /etc/rc.d" and then do a "ls -l" you can check to see if the file rc.modules actually exists.



-zsejk

[EDIT: try the following first: type "modprobe emu10k1" as root at the prompt]

rc.modules is a shell script.

Hey.

Please keep ind mind that you're taking to a mewbie here....

modprobe emu10k1 returns this:

/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod emu10k1 failed

I have no idea what this means but suppose that the emu10k1 module is not loaded ? Btw, does emu10k1 has anything to do with ALSA ? ..or it two different technologies ?

What is your output for :

/sbin/modprobe -l | grep sound

i would try alsaconf to see if that helps. if not post the output from lsmod

also is this a dell. i understand that some have cheap versions of sb live card that can have problems

alsaconf should solve your problem. alsaconf loads the module. I had the same prob until I updated to the 2.6.7 kernel and now everything is running smooth

EDIT: although looking again at that readout from ur modprobe of the sblive module....I dunno... I'll leave it up to the more savvy slackware gurus