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Could it be a bad burn? Try burning the iso's again at a slower speed.

If I su then type cat /etc/fstab > /dev/usb/lp0 It prints no problem. If I'm a normal user, I get "Permission denied"

I installed cups, gimp, and esp from source. $cat /proc/devices gives this: Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 14 sound 21 sg 29 fb 109 lvm 128 ptm 129 ptm 136 pts 137 pts 162 raw 180 usb Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 7 loop 9 md...

I haven't been able to figure this one out in almost 8 months of using slack. I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected via usb. Here is the usb section of my rc.modules file: ### USB Host Controllers: # Universal Host Controller Interface (Intel standard): /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci ### USB...

open a terminal type 'su' without the quotes enter the root password type 'whoami' terminal should return 'root' type 'kedit /etc/hosts' add a line like this at the end '127.0.0.1 andy.mshome andy' save the file try surfing now.

I had to edit /etc/hosts in order to get 'drake to connect to the internet. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 . domainname. domaimname Where "domainname" is whatever you named it during setup.

I'm pretty sure GAIM is intalled by default. Go to the menu button and choose run. Type in gaim and it should start up.

I am a relative newbie to slackware. I am running slack 8.1 and am considering upgrading to the newest release (8.2?). What has me concerned is that it took me several hours to get slack 8.1 running almost perfect (still can't get it to print). Is there any way to upgrade without losing all...