Hello
I think I probably met some of you at a 'Linux Install Day' some months back when my friend Ricardo tried (unsuccessfully) to get Debian on my machine. (The problem centred on Debian not supportinf my Graphics card).
I have since aquired Mandrake 9.0 and have installed this on my machine. But am having trouble with the internet connection. I have to use the wizard to connect it each time, since if I don't it will seem to connect okay, but the connection won't be available to any programs.
kppp thinks it is connected, and my phone is definitely busy with modem noises until I hang it up, but the kde control centre says I'm not connected and I can't get kmail or konqueror or any other internet program to work.
The only way I can get back online is to use the wizard again, which is a big pain for me and just too difficult for my girlfriend...
I have two computers and the same problem occurs on both.
One is an AMD 900, dual booting with Madrake 9.0 and M$W98SE and the other is an Intel Celeron 300, with just Mandrake 9.0
So I think the problem is either with my modem or with Mandrake 9.0, which are the only things they have in common. Or it could be the KDE desktop. I haven't tried the Gnome one. I'm new to all this and I thought I'd just try and learn one at a time...
Thanks in advance for any help.
Anton