Its me again,
having trouble again, this time i switched the PC card for a USB. The USB has connected to my router fine, and the signal is clear. Trouble is that i still cannot get an internet connection through the ADSL router, which connects to AOL. I don't know what the problem might be, whether its a DNS problem, I.P. address problem or my connectivity. Can someone help me please, and thank you

~P3~

p.s. Im a beginner when it comes to computers, etc so step-by-step guides or tutorials is very much appreciated!

(The router is a Netgear)

unfortunately the only thing that is wrong is AOL, it will be unlikely that you will be able to connect to the internet using AOL. Its not very linux friendly and i dont think i have heard of any one using it successfully with Linux. AOL

AOL does play with linux, I have used it with linux for over a year.
Firstly, What router are you using?
If it's the blue frog thing that comes free with AOL, bin it, they're rubbish, and basically win-modems. Get a good, now very cheap, ADSL router that connects via your network card, it's much easier, and well worth the money and usually come with a built in hardware firewall thrown in for free too!
The main thing that may be stopping you is your MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) It should be MTU 1400.
Start up a terminal, type in
ifconfig
have a read through what comes up under eth0, you may see MTU 1500 or something, sometimes higher.
If you do, you need to type;
ifconfig mtu 1400
this will "temporarily" change your mtu to 1400, try connecting to the internet.
If it doesn't work we then need to check your router's MTU is set at 1400 too, you should be able to use your browser to access your routers settings, within there will be your MTU which if you are logged in as an administrator you should be able to change and then save and restart your router and try and connect.
If none of this works, or makes no sense, post back with your usb device, and router make and model.
Good luck

Its somewhat of an oxymoron IMO since many of AOL's servers run unix/linux but yet they do not have a non windows. AOL probably realizes that there probably isn't a big market. However, I've been successful connecting to AOL via DSL but only directly connected i.e. no router using just roaring penguin pppoe.
Did you enter your username / password in the router?

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showt...ight=pppoe+aol

Hey r0jaws, can you please clarify with me what you mean exactly when saying 'terminal'?
And michaelk, i believe a username and passsword were entered in

I've had it up to here with AOL, im only still on it, because i dont want to have to pay excess amount of money each month via dial-up on my laptop, when i should be able to go wireless & access my main computer


~P3~

Console terminal where you enter commands i.e. ifconfig etc.
xterm, aterm are console terminals.

Hold down the "Alt" key and press "F2" This should bring up a "Run Command" dialogue box. In this box type,
konsole (if you're using KDE as your desktop)
gnome-terminal (if you're using Gnome)
You will need to be logged on as root to make changes so once the terminal has started type
su -
then enter your root password and carry on as before.
That should get you started, BTW which distro are you using?