Hi, I am new to Linux & Mandrake, but am very fortunate to have had excellent help in setting up my system, which looks great and most of the hardware is working including the winmodem!
Now i am here needing to learn some very basic moves! And i do it by trying stuff out... We did not quite get my access to the ISP working in the setup, but using another name & isp we did confirm that the modem was working. Now i have been trying to figure out how to revisit the configuration for the connection. Played around in my "user" incarnation in KDE looking for a place to start... but it told me I needed to be "root" (for something) probably foolishly did that and did get into a place where i cld set up my isp dialup --- it only had one --- default. I fiddled in there but then got out. Later logged in again with my user ID and figured out how to get into kppp and found the three connection settings we had used before. Now if i try any of them i get a message: "Sorry the Modem is busy" If i click the Internet icon on the desktop I get another message: "kppp has detected a /home/walter/.kde/share/apps/kppp/kppp.pid file. Another instance of kppp seems to be running process-ID 3323. Make sure that you are not running another kppp. delete the pid file. and restart kppp." I cant seem to get into .kde from /home/walter/ using either Konqueror or the bash shell... what is .kde/ etc. ? ~~~ Lots of basics here ... any clues or suggestions will be much appreciated. Walter At one point in
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