Dear folks: I wish everyone the best of holidays. I am new at Linux/KDE. I just installed Mandrake and everything works fine except for the following: 1) I can't even begin to configure PPP because pppd is not compiled in the kernel (I ran dmesg). I have no experience recompiling kernels (why on Earth isn't PPP compiled in the kernel anyway?!?), but tried to follow the directions in the official installation instructions for RedHat 5.0. All of the following commands fail: make xconfig; make config; make menuconfig; make mrproper. When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not being found; 2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into the kernel too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card; 3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install, but during a Linux session I cannot i) manually open and close the CD tray; ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. I am sure the answers to these questions are stupidly simple, but I have been racking my brain all evening and cannot seem to get anywhere. Thanks in advance for all of your help Happy Holidays and best wishes Idris
