Re: Network and Sound issues
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:20:58PM +0000, Will Ness wrote:
> I am new to the whole debian scene
Welcome on-board!
> nic is a "Xircom Credit Card Ethernet 10/100 Ready" (Xircom CE3B -100BTX).
> How do I get it to work? (what drivers to add, and files to edit, etc.?) It
Network info is in /etc/network/interfaces. I'm not sure
what driver you'd be using, I'd have thought it would have
loaded by itself. Maybe you need to install the package
'hotplug' (not sure, pcmcia is definitely not my specialty).
> As for the sound, I get a message everytime to start
> X-Windows, saying that I do not have permission to used
> the "dsp" device that generates the sound. How do I
> correct this?
If you check out the permissions for /dev/dsp:
[yves@oban]:net$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp
You can see that it belongs to user 'root', and also group
'audio'. By default normal users do not belong to this group
(to prevent just anyone playing sound). You simply need to
switch to super-user and add your username to the 'audio'
group:
su
adduser my_login_name audio
Next log-in should solve your problem (hopefully).
Y.
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