Probably bad protocol to reply to your own thread, but I'm celebrating!

Managed to figure out (just by trial and error) that running pon speedtouch THEN the pppoatm config option manages to get me online. That seems slightly long winded though - can anyone suggest (or is there) a way of automating the whole thing?

On the whole, I'm rather happy with myself (hell, it's only taken me a week to get everything working!) and now have my machine dual booting XP and Kanotix BH9a so I can get more comfortable with Linux.