I'm a total newbie in linux, which distro should i get, and how can i setup my internet connection before i get into a trouble ?

I use Alcatel Speed Touch USB ADSL modem with Sympatico HSE
I also got a Mandrake 9.1 cd's will it work on it?

Thanks

Go here.

http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/

It works under RedHat 9, so I don't see why it shouldn't work for RedHat 8 (or any other distro).

As for which distro, Mandrake or RedHat are probably good choices if you're new to Linux (Mandrake is based on RedHat anyway).

Dave.

Thanks , i will try that

anyone know what they mean when they say:
"sh speedtouchconf.sh" , where do i type that?
and what do i do with this stuff?
http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/script.html

Peter

sh is your shell (the command line). You can get to one in a few ways:

Press Ctrl-Alt-F2
This gets you to a login shell (it's actually Bash, not sh, but that doesn't matter). You can login there and you'll be able to run your shell scripts (the speedtouchconf.sh file is a shell script).

Or

Find 'Terminal' or 'xterm' or 'konsole' or something similar in your KDE or Gnome menu.
This will give you a small shell inside KDE or Gnome to use from which you can run the scripts.

Once you have got yourself a shell by one of the methods above, you can type sh /root/scripts/speedtouchconf.sh (for example).
That should run the script. (You'll have to change '/root/scripts' to be whatever directory speedtouchconf.sh is in.)

Hope that's some use.