Connecting to company network

[Marcus]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Do you not have an outside connection at home at all?  I have about as much 
> cat5 strung around here as the std telco 2 pair stuff.  3 machines all 
> told...

Not yet, but I'd like to be able to plug my laptop (also running 
Kubuntu) into a home network, and maybe my Linux PDA (Zaurus). All wired 
at the moment.

Any good how-tos for networking newbies?

Thanks,

Marcus