[newbie] Mandrake 9

[Roz and Steve Gugenberger]

To list,             Hoping that someone can assist.  I would love to stop using Windows and start using Mandrake.  I just love it but cannot get my ADSL to work and as my wife uses the Internet a lot (and I do also) I have to keep booting into Windows to use it and check emails.  Surely Mandrake can work with ADSL.  I have gone through all the help files and done exactly what they say, searched for PPPOE on the Mandrake site (no hits found).  It appears that I do not have PPPOE installed.   How can I find whether I do and if I don’t where can I get it from.  After 10 hours of trying to get my ADSL working with Mandrake I am starting to think that it is harder than it should be and if we want to convince other Window users of the benefits of Linux setting up an ADSL connection should be a little easier.   Any assistence to get my Australian ADSL to work would be much appreciated and if I need PPPoe installed a location where I can download it from.   Thanks for your help   From a very tired and fustrated Steve