ok if you remember i was haveing the problems with my modem well i said i was going to buy that us robotics modem to se what would happen well i went to bestbuy today they had it so i bought it and put it in and then i got on knoppix and at first i couldent get it with the kppp dialer and all so i went to shell and did pppconfig and configured everything and dialed on and imm on it now as i type this imm sorry i so Happy well thanks for your time and everything