**We gave up. **A buddy of his wiped Linux, installed Windoze 98 and **had him connected before they'd finished enjoying a **couple of beers. No pain. No hassles. No cursing **frustration. **Windows found all the hardware and configured it **without asking any obscure questions. Windows found **the modem and recognized it instantly. Windows asked **two questions to identify the ISP... and he was **connected... browsing and getting e-mail.
Hi: Just a thought. Linux was a "problem". Windows wasn't. That means you had hardware that worked fine with Windows. Now, was that hardware also compatible with Linux? [sorry, haven't followed the thread]. Determining that my hardware was compatible for Linux, I then installed SuSE7.1 with little fuss. After that, all hell broke loose, as I began a long campaign of misreading, not reading the right info, ad nauseum. <grin> hmmmm. Thanks, Tom