Hi Thanks to all those that replied to my post. Now I know my printer will work that's good, I have never used the nink monitor anyway. As to the ADSL modem, the reason I asked if anyone had experience with it was mainly due to the fact that along with the drivers there comes the connection software to enter the neccessary to connect to my ISP. I wanted to know if that is still in a linux based driver for it.As one replier pointed out it is a USB modem. Buying another is not an option as I don't have the money for that. Someone asked what I would use linux for. Well everything I use windows for now: playing music and video files, burning CDs and DVDs (when I find the software), DTP, WP etc. The only thing I would keep windows for is playing games as I don't think most of my games would work under linux. Thanks again for the replies. Jay ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com