Slackware 11 help

[Tony E - Jaraeth]

Slackware's /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/input/mice, and the only
thing I can think of that would cause X to not recognize it is if it
typically would use special drivers, ie: a busmouse or some oddity of
the sort.

As far as the Network Card, the kernel module may not be present, and
thus is not supported.  This depends on which kernel you used to install
Slackware, or if you compiled a kernel yourself, if you included the
module into the kernel, or as a module.

I would suggest running, "lspci" and "lsmod".  What do those output/say?

Regards,

  ~ Tony E



Kenneth wrote:
>> The first is my mouse is not being recognized by X. I have tried
>> /dev/mouse, /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice for a ps2 mouse. Not any
>> luck with any of them.
> 
> Can't help with this, except to suggest you see what device names are
> present, and see if the kernel knows there's a port there, etc.
> 
> 
>> The second thing is I can't get networking going. I set up dhcp in the
>> setup netconfig but no dice.
> 
> Is a module being loaded for your NIC?  What do what does ifconfig -a tell
> you?
> 
> I haven't used slack, so this is general information, what I would look at to
> track down the problems.  Maybe someone else has more direct experience.
> 
> 
> 
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