I am going over to a friends house this Saturday (the friend who got me=20 involved with linux) and am installing Mandrake onto his box. My request = is=20 that you teach me how to get his modem operational so that he can talk to= you=20 wonderful people(so he will have access to all of you without having to=20 operate M$ Windows. I sure hope that this is not to vague of a question. = What=20 I need to know is what do I need to link to get it to work ; what do I ha= ave=20 to copy . Oh yea..... he has a cable modem. Gosh, I feel like I just aske= d an=20 impossible question! --=20 :-)~Mike~(-: