Schnoid

Hello, At my university, the only way to access the internet is through a VPN connection on a wireless network. I've got the wireless card in my machine to connect to the access point, that's all OK, but, I'm struggling getting the PPPoE connection and the VPN connection to work. I've ran "sudo pppoeconf" and it seemed to set everything up fine. It then said to type "pon dsl-provider" to start the connection. When I do this though, it returns plugin "rp-pppoe.so loaded" I don't think this is connected. It may be trying to use the eth0 instead of ath0 but I'm really not sure. Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated, as I cannot get the machine on the Internet any other way. Thanks in advance. Schnoid.

right, ok, i've downloaded the RPM for apt and i'm trying to install it. i get a message saying "Packages Not Found The following packages could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until they are installed." the list is as follows: lib-4.3.so librpmdb-4.3.so librpmio-4.3.so where do i go from here? any help much appreciated. cheers. schnoid.

Hello all, I've finally done it. I've abandoned XP, at last. I've installed Fedora Core 3 and it's all up and running nicely. I'm just wondering what to do now. Things like, which dir should i install programs to and where should i store documents, things like that. Any other noob help, hints and tips and of you can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much. Schnoid.