Quote Originally Posted by champagnemojo
In every forum you will find someone who rubs you the wrong way.
(little snip)
find the forum helpful it hardly makes sense to leave due to issues with one member.
Yes, very true, thank you. You speak wisely.
I have been away playing with Knoppix, calming down, composing a "bozo-file" and will be back soon
Quote Originally Posted by champagnemojo
Besides...you know you want to move to linux.
Yea, verily 'tis so !
and I am persevering, what I really-really want is a split screen Windoze on the left half and Knoppix on the right but I may, instead, have to consult the domestic authority with a view to purchasing another machine !

Thanks to all who have responded elsewhere to my various puzzles, all read and filed for future investigations.

btw, I have been delving, and found cat /proc/pci
which has produced (amongst loads of lines of strange text) a response :
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Communication controller: Ambient Technologies Inc HaM controllerless modem

So perhaps Knoppix does know something about my modem ? Atleast to the extent of interrogating it ?
Anyway, ignore that, i'll repost it somewhere soon when I can figure out which forum and which subject header would least risk giving User-Unknown a heart attack !

Malcolm.