AIM on/off

Ok if some of you have seen me going on and off of AIM this evening it is because I am working on getting some settings right on my Linux box. I did a reinstall of it and I am having some probs, I am fairly new to Linux and from what I understand I just got lucky and did some right stuff the first time around. I am having probs with the drivers on my modem, it keep disconnecting when I log on to an AIM client, I think that I have the prob. figured out but fixing it is the tricky part. Time to order that Linux book. Until next time, "CTRL, ALT, DEL".