I'm a complete newbie to Linux, so this may seem a little lame to most of
you. I've been following these messages for some time looking for
information on how to configure, install, and use my sound card and modem.
I have a VIA sound card that has a (Red Hat) Linux driver on the CD. It's a
*.gz file. I tried to use gunzip to unzip it, but then I don't know what to
do with it after that.
I noticed recently during the boot up process that I see a RED [Failed] go
by. Most of what I see says [Passed]. I believe it has something to do
with a sound card device failing, but it goes by too fast. (Is there any
way to slow this down, or view a text file that shows the order in which
things are executed, mounted, whatever, during the boot up process)
I recently found out that my modem is obviously already configured for
Linux. I configured a PPP connection that causes it to dial. I hear it
dialing, I hear it connecting, but I have no way to check anything else. It
will keep dialing and connecting about every 10 minutes, but I have no idea
how to use that connection. Netscape doesn't show any way in it's GUI to
configure it to use a specific PPP connection, and I can't get Netscape to
navigate even when I'm connected.
Any help with any of these would be greately appreciated. If anyone has any
useful information from when they were learning Linux, I'm all ears.
