On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:20:58 +0000 "Will Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Everyone!!
> I am new to the whole debian scene, and mailing lists in general, but I was
> told this was the right place to ask hard questions. That said, here is a
> sit-rep of my two problems: I am running Debian (2.24 I believe) on a Compaq
> presario 1230. This laptop is about 7 years old, making it perfect for
> debian :)!! Anyways I got debian installed, and X-Windows up and running. It
> works great except the network card and sound do not work. My 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 is
> critical that this problem get solved! 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? I
> installed the 'vanilla' flavor of debian, if that helps.... Any help would
> be fantastic! Thanks!
>
> -Will
>
Hi there!
Congratulations for doing a great choice! For the sound you add yourself to the audio
group. As root, type: "adduser your_user audio".
Best wishes
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