On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:13:27 +1200 (NZST)
Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi.  I've just spent an interesting evening at the house of the daughter of a 
> friend's, trying to fix a broken MS WinXP installation, which had a perfectly 
> natural selection of virii and other malware.  I've also, at their 
> insistence, 
> installed Ubuntu, only to find that it fails the user test of being able to 
> connect to the Internet. 
>  
> It's got a USB DSL modem, pppoa, and Ubuntu doesn't recognize that in its 
> basic form. 
>  
> Does anyone have any experience with this problem?  Any hints, ideas, files, 
> etc? 
>  
> Thanks 
>  
> Wesley Parish 

Make and model?
Vendor and Product ID?
lsusb output?

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