I hear you! I've spent many hours trying to do the simplest things. Frankly I have not achieved much. I don't mind spending some time to learn something new, but sheesh! I think Linux, at this point, is strictly for those who have programing in their background. It seems the manuals, man pages etc. are written for those who already completely understand all this stuff. Joe Average doesn't stand a chance. Linux has a long long way to go to even make a dent in the windows market, in terms of loading/configuring and overall ease of use. I'm beginning to suspect nobody actually does any work <I>in</I> Linux, rather, all their time is spent trying to get <I>it </I>to work : ). I just needed to blow off a little steam after much frustration. Tim Tim Schaefer wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>I have tried to find simple examples of what to do, but to no avail. 1. PPP If Linux is to somehow overtake Win95, an interface to configure PPP <BR> should present itself. I don't have time to wade through an endless <BR> dialog on how to set up PPP. Is there a one-stop doc for setting up <BR> ppp? WITH EXAMPLES? How many months will it take for me to simply <BR> set up the modem to dial my ISP and log in, and connect me to the <BR> internet? In WinNT and Win95 I'd be done long ago. Yast is INCOMPLETE <BR> for setting up my modem. It simply isn't finished. 2. Scanner I have an HP scanner. It's recognized by the hardware, and the yast <BR> program says it's there, but where's the software to USE the scanner? 3. Jazz Drive I have an internally installed SCSI Jazz drive ( 1 GB ). It's known to <BR> the system as /dev/sdb4 . Do I mount it? Samba it? How do I get my <BR> Jazz drive to work with Linux? Can somebody show me the correct <BR> mount command? I do not sit in front of my Linux box for hours wading through the wrong docs <BR>on what to do simply because I don't have the time. I'd really appreciate some <BR>simple CLEAR and unabstract docs with examples. What's really surprising is <BR>that Yast isn't in Tcl, and that there isn't a GUI interface to configure the <BR>modem, or a scanner, or a Jazz drive. And here I am STILL using NT for my <BR>email. Sigh. Thanks in advance if you can help! Tim Schaefer <BR>tschaefe@mindspring.com <BR>www.inxutil.com <BR>-- <BR>To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with <BR>this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e</BLOCKQUOTE> -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e