Just checking,
Which version of Salix are you using?
Are you using WICD or NetworkManager?
Have you tried sakis3g? (do try it, that's what it's for.)

You may have to edit whatever your DE or file manager uses to tell it what to open the file with. I'm using KDE/Dolphin and that .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications does the trick.

You edit the Exec line to launch the program using switch32 Here's a one by wine [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=AutoREALM executeable MimeType=application/x-wine-extension-aurx; Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/richard/.wine" switch32 -c 'wine start /ProgIDOpen AutoREALM %f' NoDisplay=tru...

You can get files opening by doubleclick using the switch32 script and custom .desktop files.

Try it either with the full path or as

The first place I would try is alsamixer That will show you and let you adjust all the levels for your sound card. Check for muted channels, etc. If you don't find anything with that read some of these http://docs.slackware.com/tag:audio?do=showtag&tag=audio Then start searching for problems wit...

You might find something here informative.

At what point do you get the black screen?
If you see the text of the boot messages, then you should be able to boot into text mode.
At the LILO screen press TAB then type Linux 3 (Replace Linux with whatever your Salix is labelled the 3 is for runlevel 3 which stops before staring the X server.)

install rpm2tgz using gslapt or slapt-get.