Harry,

Thanks for man ping tip and rest of your counsel but still no luck trying everything you've suggested.

Bearing in mind interest merely test drive Knoppix LiveCD and intrigued no such problem encountered getting online with Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger preview-version LiveCD I've poked around the KURUMIN documentation. A Brazilian distro based on Knoppix, currently in stable version 5.0 used by thousands or millions (?) of locals mostly youngsters, and what stood out was an alert on the KURUMIN introductory download page for anyone with an ADSL connect problem in Brazil.

The KURUMIN alert is to substitute the script in "/usr/sbin/pppoeconf" with this one

http://www.guiadohardware.net/kurumin/scripts/pppoeconf

if difficulty encountered using ADSL with authentication as is my case - where set up with username and password in WindowsXP to establish ADSL connection to telco - using pppoeconf. Again, latter I use as DHCP Broadcast (Backgrounding highlighted blue during boot) won't let me open our telco web portal page in Konqueror/Firefox with Knoppix LiveCD 4.0.2.

KURUMIN then instructs users to type " chmod +x /usr/sbin/pppoeconf" following this script change.

This is over my head at this stage but does indicate a possible KNOPPIX or KURUMIN conflict with ADSL local setup. I may dig deeper into this after burning a KURUMIN ISO and test driving that. Should I get KURUMIN 5.0 up and running as-is, with or without their suggested pppoeconf script substitution, I'll be sure to report this happy fact back to the forum.

Thanks again,
David