Sound And PPP

[EniSol]

2 questions (hopefully quick)

1: I'm playing around with my Slack 7.1 install, and I'm wondering about Sound Support. I have an onboard (uuuurgh) SB 64v pci... Am I right in assuming that sound support on Slack is not compiled in? And I'm gonna have to recompile the kernel to include sound support? (assuming that it's out of the box, and no other messing how would I do this?). Just for the sound, what should I do?

2: Since I used redhat, I used the rh ppp dialer to get internet access (this install was out of the box too). On slack I have no rh ppp dialer so, what would I do to get internet access? I tried using the dialer that comes with gnome, and it won't dial.

(btw, anyone also tell me why after my slack install linux could understand my MS-DOS partitions long file names and rh couldn't [I used linuxconf to specify what to mount and where])

Cheers

Adrian/Eni$ol

[skweegie]

heyas enisol,

1) never worked that sound card yet. what did RH detect the card as (name or chipset)? all readily pluggable modules are located in:
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules
where all you have to do is uncomment the module you want to load for the long term (if you ever have to reboot) or you can also just modrobe the module alias name for it to load immediately...

2) assuming you have your modem configured properly, slackers use "pppsetup" to configure their dial up settings. slack.com has a quick guide: http://slackware.com/config/ppp.php

after you set up your dial up, you can use a whole plethora of utilities to dial up as long as you use "ppp-go" as the dial up initiating script...

3) not really sure why it would automatically parse long files names except for the fact that during slack setup, you have the opportunity to mount your non ext2fs partitions and the setup script detects what file system they are and automatically configures your /etc/fstab accordingly. since the setup will detect the fat32 partitions and place them in your fstab as filetype vfat, you automatically have access to those directories/files in those partitions...

hope this helps...

cheers

duh, almost forgot...
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[Muzzafarath]

1. The sound modules are already compiled. I believe your card uses the es1370 or the es1371 module. Try `modprobe es1370` and if that doesn't work `modprobe es1371`. One of them _should_ work http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by Muzzafarath (edited 21 November 2000).]

[EniSol]

Thanks alot guys http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif I did manage to get the PPP working... I'm actually back online with slack!

(btw - Slack RoX and you know it http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif)

Too bad I'm too newbie to use it completely hehe.

As for the sound, urgh, I tried to modprobe both, and they came up with errors. Basically that they are configured incorrectly.

On another note, I noticed at boot a pnp device couldn't be recognised. Could that be it? I had it working on redhat, can't remember what I did tho.

Any chance you could tell me what config files I'd need to edit to be able to get this working?

THanks alot for the answers guys...

And Sqweegie, I didn't mean to ignore them, I just couldn't find my post hehe. My appologies.

Adrian/Eni$ol