One problem with documentation nowadays (Score 1)

I remember the first time I installed Linux on my computer, like 2 years ago. I tried get things to work: I found HOW-TOs, I knew about man pages, etc. I was able to boot, and then do some cd and ls... wow! ;-) I think that if you have any knowledge of computer (PC) you should be OK with the basic things about Linux. (By the way, I think that only people who know about computers, OS, etc., and want to tweak things, do some programming, etc. should install Linux by themselves. Other people should use it because someone else installed it for them.) But when I tried to get my LAN and PPP connections working, I stumbled across a lot of document that told me go see http://somewhere.org to get the driver, the information, the example, etc. The problem was... I try to get connected to the Internet, how do you want me to go there to find information??? And last month the same thing happened when my provider changed the way my DSL modem works. Cut from the Internet, I had at least 10 URLs that would tell me how to make my things work, but I was cut from the world. So I had to spend 2 days tweaking and trying things by myself and calling a friend to ask him to bring me some files on a disk. :-( I can't see any way to solve this "problem" since you cannot know in advance what will be needed be everyone, and in general using the Internet as a reference is a good thing IMO. But sometimes it's ironic... ;)