On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:35:47 +0000 Tony Anderson <tonys.linux@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > On my first attempt to install 3.0 r2 'WOODY' from CD, i couldn't get > past installing the base kernel. I had a more joy second time round and > got as far as getting KDE to load through X. Unfortunately it appears as > > if my NetGear FA311/312 NIC card is not supported by the Linux kernel, > > it is using the 'National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815' driver in > Lindows, could someone please point me to the correct drivers and a > howto on installing them ? If your NIC was not identified by the install . . .during the install, you should have reached a point where you could take the step of "Configure Device Driver Modules." That's where you select drivers for hardware you want. The driver you want is called "natsemi". If you've already finished the install, then you want to use the command "modprobe" to install the module into the currently running kernel. To make sure that it's used in future boots, put it into /etc/modules, which contains a list of kernel modules that should be installed at boot-time. > I also noticed that I had no sound as arts couldn't load from X. I'm > using SIS SI7018 pci audio integrated into the mainboard which is using > the '3.8.1a-980706 (ALSAv0.9.8 emulation code)' in Lindows. Any help > would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure what you mean by "aRts couldn't load from X". I guess you're saying that when KDE started, it didn't start the aRts daemon? If so, it's worth hunting around and finding what the error message was when it tried to start it. Or, you could start it manually and see what it tells you. You shouldn't need aRts to make sound, though -- KDE applications like to talk to the sound drivers through aRts, but others don't need to. Just try playing a WAV file using "play filename.wav" and see what happens. Or try playing a file in xmms (first making sure that xmms is set up to use the ALSA or OSS output plugin, via Options --> Preferences --> Audio I/O Plugins --> Output Plugin (within xmms). -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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