I feel really stupid now. I felt like I knew so much about computers before and suddenly realized I wasn't intelligent but they let me think that because I was "special". Anyway, I have to start over as a newbie now. I have a few questions now that I'm linux. I've spent the last couple of days playing around with it, and I've walked away with a big head ache. My modem won't work with linux, it is a winmodem, and neither will the sound card, because it is a combination with the modem. I did find a driver for it, from conexant. They sent me to a site called linuxant. Anyway, the driver is in an RPM package, I finally figured out what that was, only problem is that when I go to try and install the modems it gives me an erroe message. For some reason both programs are need pciutils to work, and I don't know what that is. Also, where do I find wine. Any RPMs I use give me some sort of error message or another, and so far, linux looks all nice and pretty, but old billy's program is doing the work. Please, somebody help me.