Did you install the "n" package sets for networking when you installed?

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, extrinsik wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Today windows 95 failed horribly for my mother while i tried to install 
> a NIC so we could lan up. It told me to "run setup to reconfigure it", 
> but my serial is long gone for windows 95. So, I am gladly installing 
> linux on it for my mother.
> 
> I had my Slackware 9.1 cds, so I put them and started to install. I did 
> it in expert mode, so I could make it a bit smaller. I selected the 
> lowmem.i kernel, just to make sure it ran a bit faster. Oh yeah, maybe I 
> should tell the specs of the machine
> 
> 166mhz cyrix (yes; that isn't a typo. A cyrix)
> 16mbs of ram
> 2 gig hd (ide)
> 
> Anyways, I booted in to start X, and I get a "Address family not 
> supported by protocol" somewhere in the mess of not being able to 
> setting its services up. This is like this for pretty much any 
> application that wants to set up on a local port.
> 
> So, I thought it was the lowmem.i kernel. So what I did was copy the 
> bare.i kernel files to the /boot directory (naming them accordingly; 
> config-ide-2.4.22, vmlinuz-ide-2.4.22, etc). This didn't work either. 
> Then, I thought it was to do with some of the base packages or network 
> packages. So, I installed all the recommended packages in the base and 
> net sections.
> 
> Well, it still gives me the error. I will recompile, but that will be 
> the last resort (recompiling on a 166mhz, ehg, that'd take forever!... I 
> could probably do it overnight I sopose). Also another thing about 
> recompiling is I have a limited amount of space I'm working with (2gbs), 
> and I left out most of the software developement packages.
> 
> 
> Anyone have simular experiences? Thanks for any help,
> 
> Todd Mueller
> 
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