I have tested several Linux Distros over the last weeks, and with all of them my DSL connection have been working out of the box (for intance Mandriva, Ubuntu, Mint). But it does not work on Dreamlinux, neither on Live CD or now where Dreamlinux is installed on my harddisk.

Anybody know what to do?

According to the guidelines provided by my Internet provider I need to use TCP/IP and activate DHCP. And make sure that PPPoE is not activated.

I see nowhere I can do this in Dreamlinux. In the controle panel i can run Wicd, but it doesn't help. Then I can chose to de-activate Wicd - this gives me an option of entering Adress, Networking mask, Gatway and Nameserver - for static ip it says - and this is the opposit of DHCP, right??

SO - what to do? Should I get a debian package or something? (Dreamlinux is using debian packages, as far as I could see) Please explain carefully - I am a newbie testing Linux. Thank you very much :-)

This would perhaps be a place to start to find answers to your problem.

I've tried plenty of distros myself and I know that a lot of them detect your Internet connection and use that directly as your Internet access, while others need your superuser input like ifconfig eth0 up . Some distros may have certain drivers lacking for several reasons and for which you will have to find and install if that is possible because some drivers are closed-source.