Of Mice and Modems

["mmissett" <mmissett@cine-med.com>]

I finally have things up and running on the G4, but I'm stuck on a couple of snags:  pppconfig can't figure out where the modem is and it's asking... me.  I've tried a few guesses, but with no evidence of success.  Also, startx is failing, saying "cannot open mouse (no such file or directory)".  The mouse in question is an Apple USB optical mouse.  My question is:  Is the  system looking in all the wrong places for things or have I just given it more wrong answers than it can tolerate?  Any advice, hints, etc. would be most appreciated.
Michael Missett