I have been using Slackware for a while now with Dualup and now I have switched to dsl, My systems a dual booter with windows 2000 and dsl has been set up fine on windows. anyway, after looking around i found how to set up my DSL connection by using adsl-setup and adsl-start. i have 2 nics so im using eth1 to go out to my modem.
When i type adsl-start it connects perfectly and when i check the status all is good, so heres my problem

When i open a Browser Nothing works at all. I see activity on my modem, but nothing comes up. This goes for amsn and other apps BUT when i run Apollon file sharing client, it connects and works fine, Sooo any Ideas, I dont want to go back to Mandrake :'( and nothing else connects

well, do you use dhcp or manually put the ip addresses and so? is it so that the ip-based addresses work, but that your DNS setup is not working and therefore you cannot use www-style (=letter-based rather than ip-based) addresses? if the file-sharing client uses ip-addresses and works, check out you have either choosed to use dhcp for the connection, or then fill the dns-server's ip-address to /etc/resolv.conf:

this is what resolv.conf ought to have inside (at least this):
where abc.def.ghi.jkl is the ip-address of your DNS server, provided by your isp. if you don't know, I suggest you put dhcp working (it's up to you and google to find out how to do that on your distro, I'm sorry I don't know that)

EDIT: dhcp means you get the DNS-information (translate letter-written addresses to ip-addresses and vice versa) from the server you're connected to, rather than manually type a server to get the information from.

Well it was automatic with 2000 pro, Im quite sure its assigned to me automaticly from my ISP, They never game me an ip.

hi,

afaik, unless your computer is assigned a static ip by your isp, then yes, the address of your machine will be assigned automatically via dhcp.

however, you may still need to provide the addresses of your isp's nameservers in /etc/resolve.conf - without them, you'll get nowhere when trying to browse.

to test, you could open up a terminal and try pinging a url, then try pinging an ip address - see what happens.

You may find that you don´t need to run the adsl-setup script.
Try instead netconfig which is pretty self explanatory, then set up your modem using it´s own software. As you seem to be connecting via eth1, it should be available with any luck from your web browser at address 10.0.0.x, or 192.168.1.x. You need to check with the documantation that came with it.