OK, then just add the line below directly after all the other sound modules.

/sbin/modprobe cmpci

so just type that line in under the module save it, reboot and then it should work? are we compiling the kernel or just adding a driver? like i said im new to Linux and want all knowledge, i dont expect you to type a 8,000 word text or nothing!!LOL, but im a learner and ive got windows down, its to easy!
ok well ill try that command and see waht happens!!
thanks
morgan

OK so i typed in
/sbin/modprobe/cmpci
in the next line down without the # symbol and hit ctrl X to exit and it asked me to save so i did, so far so good, so i reboot and you know how when slack boots all that text comes up, well somewhere in there now it says
"/etc/rc.d/rc.S: /sbin/modprobe/cmpci is not a directory"
and when i load KDE or Gnome i still get the error,
"could not find /dev/dsp, does not exist, continuing using the null device"
whatever the null device is!! anyways i dont have sound with null, so what did i do wrong oh mighty Mentor!

You need a space between modprobe and cmpci -
- is the way it should be written.

So then, compare the line you wrote above with what I stated in my post.

/sbin/modprobe cmpci

Notice you added a slash and eliminated the space. The command part is "/sbin/modprobe". The module name part is "cmpci". The command instructs the module loading program "/modprobe" that is located in the directory "/sbin" to load the module named "cmpci". The modprobe program will know where to look for the module and if any additional modules are required first and will load them as required. This additional information is maintained in a database file by another program called "depmod".

Excalibur and Aussie you guys or gals are the shit!!!!!! thank you so much, i have sound, and never would have figured that out!
Thank You So Much!

Im going to set my dsl (LAN) up now, any suggestions, like i know i need my IP address, my subnet, and gateway but what about "NAMESERVER" and "HOSTNAME" and "DOMAIN NAME" what do i type in for that, and also what is a good firewall for slack? can i install it thru KDE or GNOME? what GUI do you guys use, kde, gnome etc.??

once again thank you, and if anybody else has this problem ill help them so you dont have to, thanks for the education!

Then your DSL is a static IP address? For your nameserver use the same IP address that you would for any machine, usually provided by your ISP. For hostname you can use whatever you want your machine to be named. If you do not have your own domain name then consider using your ISP domain name. If your static IP has a reverse name assignment then you may consider using that for your hostname and domain name.

For a firewall, Linux includes a good internal firewall. Slack would use iptables to configure the kernel tables. You can do a search here on LQ for a lot of threads I am sure. I do not think there is a GUI though for setting it up. GUI's are not very common or desired in Slack. Everything is done from the command line for the system level configs.

On the window manager, you name it and I am sure somebody is running it.

For NAMESERVER you just need to input the IP for your ISP's domain name server (dns), you can leave HOSTNAME and DOMAIN NAME blank unless your ISP issues you with one.
For firewalls slack works best with an iptables rc.firewall script in /etc/rc.d/, see the following sites for more info and downloadable scripts,
http://www.netfilter.org/
http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/
You will already have iptables installed so you just need a script.

Thanks again Aussie and Excalibur!
Aussie..When you say i need the ip address for the nameserver do you mean the domain or the actual IP address, i use Verizon for my DSL their domain is "dsl-verizon.net, can i use that or do i need the actual "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" address. which i dont know what there IP is but i can use a ip tracer

Thanks

P.S do you think slack9.0 would be more friendly to a newbie?

Verizon will be running several domain name servers (DNS), you will need to enter the IP numbers of one or more of these in the NAMESERVER field.

Hey Aussie or Excalibur

OK, so i decided to do a little security before blaring my open ports to everyone since i know the firewall will take me some time so i got a file on shadowing your password so i start with
pico /etc/shadow and i delete the encrypted password between
the colons and i reboot like told, works fine i log into root with no password but then the text says the first thing to do is create a new user for root but it does not say how, i know i dont use the adduser command...or do I!!! and also when i create new password do i use the new one to log in? if so whats the purpose of shadowing the old one?

i know you guys are sick of answering me huh!!

Hey Guys forget about the shadowing i figured it out with the passwd command, but i am still having internet connection problems, so like i said before i have DSL thru Verizon and XP says its a LAN, so whatever, but when i use the command ipconfig in winXP i get my ip info wich is...

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix :dsl-verizon.net
IPADDRESS.................................:111.111.111.111
SUBNET MASK.............................:222.222.222.222
DEFAULT GATEWAY.....................:333.333.333.333

so based on this i follow the netconfig command in linux
what is your hostname....i type (default) DARKSTAR
then, what is your domain...i use my IPADDRESS 111.111.111.111
then i type my IPADDRESS, SUBNET GATEWAY, in that order as it tells me, then it asks me about using a nameserver i say yes (wich i dont know if i need?) when i click yes it automatically shows my gateway wich i assume is default so i click yes, i asks to probe and finds card using a tulip driver or something like that

so this is obviously wrong cause it wont work!!! LOL, what do i need to do, also when i installed slack it asked if i had modem, i said no cause i assumed this meant dial-up..right??

Maybe the DSL-HOWTO can help.