linux beginner needs some help

i just installed fedora core 2 on my pc, using dual boot now.

how do i go about setting my internet connections so that i could surf the net?
secondly, how do i set up my modem in fedora?

thanks in advance

I'm guessing you have a dialup connection since your asking about a modem. The first thing then to connect to the net is to setup your modem.

We'll need to know your modem's model and then go from there.

Good Luck!!!!
ive partitioned my system to have linux on one partition and windows on the other, unfortunately i cannot seem to get the internet working on linux, no matter what i try!!!!

Assuming you have a winmodem you'll need to install some drivers (Linux doesn't normal ship with modem drivers as they are propriotry code). Check out http://www.linmodems.org/ they should be able to point you in the right direction.

Another good guide can be found here http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto-2.html#ss2.1

If you are sure that your modem is supported by Linux without drivers, please continue. Otherwise, download the scanmodem script and look at the /scan/ModemData.txt file it creates for you:

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz

extract the script first then

chmod +x scanModem
./scanModem