I'm sure I have everything set up right. DSL
modem's working fine and no problems getting net card detected and running. But here's the BIG question... "How do I log on to provider". Dumb one I'm sure, but I'm stumped.....Help!!!!

Depends on your isp and the protocol they use. If, for instance, you use pppoe [point-to-point protocol over the ethernet] like I do with Earthlink adsl, you could use rp-pppoe's setup script to get connected. You would have to know your user name and password and the domain name servers your isp uses (Mine has two: 207.69.188.186 & 207.69.188.185 [for illustrative purposes] and maybe a search domain; I use search.mindspring.com.

If you got this far and are still interested, see if rp-pppoe is installed:

$ rpm -q rp-pppoe
rp-pppoe-2.8-3mdk

If not, do # urpmi rp-pppoe and it will prompt you for the proper cd.

Then, as root, do # adsl-setup and you will be walked through a script where you put in your info.

This is just one way, the one I know