Newbie needs help badly!

I'd like to apologize in advance to anyone who's helped me with my previous questions and hasn't gotten a thank-you. There's a good reason for that, though: Debian ate my email. I've been trying to get a window system working, but I decided to focus on something more basic, specifically gettin

Further information on 'eaugh'...

Typing 'plog' periodically during a connection attempt shows that the computer gets as far as connecting with the other side, then appears to give up before username and password are supplied, saying 'command script required for demand dialing' or something similar. I've gone through 'pppconfig

Eaugh. Connection problems.

Okay, so I went through the twelve-hour download and install without significant hitches. (A few files had to be retried because my modem connection dropped a few times during the download.) My problem now is that, having restarted, I can't seem to get a working modem connection again. At fir

What should I do after a power failure?

Hey, everybody. First-time Linux user here (well, sort of; I've struggled before with getting either Debian or SuSE installed, unsuccessfully). So far, I like what I've seen of Debian (mostly installation screens and documentation); not only do I like the actual freeness of it (SuSE, for insta