Still not configured

Well, I haven't gotten it all configured. So far, I see that my sound card doesn't seem to be working. I can't get my CD drive to play music CDs. I don't have Internet yet, but I haven't put a lot of work into that.

What I've been doing it figuring out what software I need to make my linux machine do what the windoze machine does. I found Insyte's page, and he's got a list of useful programs. I went thru there and picked some.

So far I've got a package installer front end. A page with lots of KDE add-in software. Here is some additional software. KDE decoration for the desktop. Finally, aMP3 database, this is important since I've got about 5000 MP3s.

I'm going to try to get the Internet connection working first. I found that Slackware has a tool called pppsetup. Hopefully it sees the modem. I haven't found out how to determine that yet. I also came up with WVdial, it should help out quite a bit, it's supposed to auto detect the modem. I'll be happy with that for the time being, but I want to make sure that I can configure it manually. I'll post to see if I can do that. Also found a link to a script that a user wrote to simplify pppsetup, it's called ispsetup1.2. Here's another script called gx-logon that connects to the Internet remotely.

So, next thing I'll need to do is find out if I can have WVdial detect the modem and connect up. I guess I'll have to switch my Internet, but that doesn't matter. On to better things.