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Worked right out of the box, er, the book
Richard Hillesley's article covers Slackware nicely.
Slackware worked miraculously for me through the Slackware CD version included in Naba Barkakati's Linux Secrets, 1996 --- over ten years ago now! Book described at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/121 and was out a couple of years after SLS turned into the Walnut Creek Software.