RE: Julia's Laptop/winmodem - update (Was: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1)

[Steve Bell]

> Then when it got to "Logging onto network", it spat the dummy,

I uncheck "logon to network" on my windows box, and it connects much faster.
I don't know the ins and outs of that, I just know it does.  (Sorry in
advance if this is a dumb answer).