Cuddles
Yaaaaay
I'm glad you managed to get the modem working.

That's strange about not being to find web pages when logged in as a normal user. The only thing that springs to mind would be proxy server settings in Konqueror and Mozilla.

See what you have under Settings/Configure Konqueror/Proxy in Konqueror for root and the other users, and see if they differ at all.

Failing that you will have to put your network engineer hat on and start trying to diagnose the problem from the bottom up, eg. Can you ping the IP address of the web site, can you resolve the web site name to its IP address, that sort of thing.

Try running the following sequence of commands, first as root, just to familiarise yourself with the process, then as another user, and see what happens differently.
The bits you need to type are in bold. Ctrl-C means press control C.
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knoppix@knoppix:~$ ping 69.56.166.99
PING 69.56.166.99 (69.56.166.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 69.56.166.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=54.8 ms
64 bytes from 69.56.166.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=55.7 ms
64 bytes from 69.56.166.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=55.3 ms
Ctrl-C
--- 69.56.166.99 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 54.8/55.2/55.7 ms
knoppix@knoppix:~$ dig www.knoppix.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> www.knoppix.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6032
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.knoppix.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.knoppix.net. 2060 IN A 69.56.166.99

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
knoppix.net. 2075 IN NS ns2.ispbox.com.
knoppix.net. 2075 IN NS rimu.eadz.co.nz.
knoppix.net. 2075 IN NS manuka.eadz.co.nz.

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 24.29.99.14#53(24.29.99.14)
;; WHEN: Wed Dec 24 09:57:52 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 127

knoppix@knoppix:~$ ping www.knoppix.net
PING www.knoppix.net (69.56.166.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 69.56.166.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=51.6 ms
64 bytes from 69.56.166.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=54.2 ms
64 bytes from 69.56.166.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=53.8 ms
Ctrl-C
--- www.knoppix.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 51.6/53.2/54.2 ms
knoppix@knoppix:~$ telnet www.knoppix.net 80
Trying 69.56.166.99...
Connected to kowhai.eadz.co.nz.
Escape character is '^]'.
get
<html>
Lots of stuff removed from here.
</body>
</html>Connection closed by foreign host.
knoppix@knoppix:~$
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Also, I see what you mean about not getting the topic review in Konqueror. I have the same problem. I found another topic on this forum where someone else had the problem too.
It is probably just a bug in Konqueror. I always use Mozilla anyway.

Good luck
THO