Hi ! Have had a look at the howto which was written by SuSE UK. This is to precise some points. If anybody, from any other country than the U.K. looks for info on SpeedTouch, he will become crazy, spending uselessly days and nights on it, just because of in his country, his provider is not a British Telecom type PPOA provider. As far as I am concerned, here in Spain, I got rfc1384 Routed. Before I got that information, - my provider gives no support to linux and his technical info is quite poor -, i tried to set it up with Johan Verrept's HOWTO. In fact, just using it is enough to set up quite easily any type of PPOA or PPOE Bridged connection. A SuSE HOWTO just mentionning where to find HOWTO's would be quite enough. http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/howto.html A specifically PPOA howto and driver was written by Benoît Papillault http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/speedtouch This one got the advantage that it doesn't require > 2.4.1 kernels. It works even with 2.2.X kernels. Por PPOE bridged, Miguel Ramos Silva's howto: http://www.zoftware.org/adsl-ppoe As far as RFC1384 Routed is concerned, Josep COMA's drivers for 3COM USB ADSL Modem are usefull since 3COM got an Alcatel chip. Personnally I used Miguel Ramos Silva's howto except for the launching of the ADSL. There I use an amended 3cnet.sh Bourne Shell from COMA's conception (addind modbrope -k speedtch sleep 10s; speedmgmt & sleep 3s; at the beginning of the Bourne Shell). http://sourceforge.net/projects/pc4218 Don't forget, when shutting Yr computer down : rmmod usb-ohci b4 shutting down. Otherwise, You might block on exit, on hotpluggable devices shutdown and be obliged to a hardreboot, with the consequent ennoying later reboot, at least if Yr partitions are ext2 or ext3, since not previously unmounted properly. This is due to the fact that the actual kernel still don't automatically cancel the hotplugged devices. ------------- So, SUMMARIZING : English, guys : a little bit humility : Linux is a worldwide operating system. It was'nt even thought by an anglo-saxon man, but by a finnish one (strangely but so : the same ethnical group as the hungarians, - NO, the finnish are not scandinavians neither germanical ! - ). The exclusive way in which the howto was written could have dammaging consequences in terms of lost of time and useless endeavours for a lot of people. A minimal ethics should drive You to start the howto with the specification that there are various ADSL supply systems, advising everyone to first check what kind of system his supplier applies. The specification of the various existing systems and references to the other existing Howto's would be no luxury. Even if just as such : as a mention. It should not cost You a lot of work showing a little bit of courtesy towards the non-british users. -------------------------------------------------------