I can't post the output of that command because the console shows a whole bunch of stuff. If I could set up my printer and print it off maybe. But even then I would be typing for an hour just to tell you everything that that console window said. But if you got any ideas on how to set up my printer I'll give it a try, although like I said before I did not see a "wizard" but went into the help file, then the console, and typed some stuff, answered yes to some other stuff like probing for parallel ports, but got pretty lost so even my printer is not set up. And to make matters worse I had a power surge in my apartment several weeks ago and ever since then I can't boot from my hard drive where Win 2000 is installed. My only access to my email and the internet is through these Live CD's. I'm actually typing this using the Mandrake Move CD.

I am reading this thread with some interest. We are currently trying to configure an internet connection for my wife's PC and have run into a whole lot of very similar problems. The only difference is, that her box is a windows xp machine, but the configuration (btopenworld-adsl, d-link wireless adsl-router, ethernet connection from pc to router) has proved to be as nightmarish as your experience. What it finally comes down to is, so it seems, that although bt has provided us with a long list of dns servers, none of them actually seems to be valid. Only after I entered a dns-adress a friend had given me, we could at least establish a connection, although a very slow one. We are still working on the matter. The problem seems to be the way big providers set up their dns-servers. That's at least my impression. Interestingly it was in our case the Linux-setup (on my PC which) went easier, although by no means flawless either.

Another distro I'm trying out is Mandrake. But the stuff I see it doing just makes no sense to me. For instance, a few days ago I loaded up the Mandrake Move CD and went about creating a new directory using the console window. Some fellow on a Mandrake site gave me some step by step directions. Finally I got to the point where I issued the mount command by typing:

mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/zipdrive

Now instead of looking at the contents of my zip drive I was actually looking at the contents of my USB drive. Well I felt somewhat satisfied for the moment and changed distros cuz I'm trying out a couple at the same time. Now today I spent several hours trying to get Mandrake to access the contents of my zip drive. I finally succeeded by typing in the hdb4 designator(hdb4 was listed under my zip drive in the Mandrake Control Center so I naturally tried it) and it worked. Feeling kind of good about that I decided to try to get Mandrake to access the contents of my USB drive again, so I created a directory called USB and when I got to the part where I issued the mount command I typed:

mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

And now Mandrake is telling me that:

mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

Go figure. If a few nights ago I successfully accessed my USB by typing something, I should be able to access it now by entering in the same thing. But no. And I've tried typing in other designators like sda2, sda3, sda4, sdXN but none of them exist as far as Mandrake is concerned. Maybe tomorrow morning Mandrake will change it's mind back to having sda1 exist. Who knows with this OS.