How can i install a new hardware?

Ronnie85 · 04-21-2005, 05:17 AM

Hello everybody, i have just installed the Slackware 10.1 for the first time and i just wanna know how can i install a new hardware? like an USB flash memory, a printer....please help me!!

xushi · 04-21-2005, 05:37 AM

It depends on what hardware you want to install.

If its a USB device, like a key, stick it in, and type

Code:

dmesg

you will get an output similar to this

Code:

usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13
scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 13
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: Flash/SM  Model: Super Talent 2.0  Rev: 2040
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdf: 506880 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdf: 506880 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host7/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

This indicates that it has been detected, and assigned to /dev/sda (in this case, /dev/sda1)

So all you have to do is mount it now

Code:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd

And there you go.

As for printers, most are compatible with CUPS. make sure you have CUPS installed, and running, and go to your internet browser to this link

http://localhost:631/

If you can't then cups may not be running

Code:

cd /etc/rc.d
chmod +x rc.cups
./rc.cups start

EDIT: If you want to check if you have cups installed or not, just type pkgtool -> View, and search for it. If its not installed, then download and install it manually

Code:

 wget http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/slackw....23-i486-1.tgz
installpkg cups-1.1.23-i486-1.tgz
(then follow the code above to start it)

Ronnie85 · 04-22-2005, 01:46 AM

Yes, it work on my PC but it doen't work on my notebook it says to me that their is no P&P device found, and i have also a problem with my sound card always on my notebook, it is an ASUS Z8100 my sound card is an "intel8x0", i compiled and installed the last version "1.0.9rc2" alsa driver, libs, tools and utilities but nothing....ALSA recognize my sound card but when i try alsamixer it says to me "no such device found" and when i run the KDE 3.3 a window says to me : "Error while initializing the sound driver: device : default can't be opened for playback (no such device)", can you help me?