Marv, I must apologize. I decided to lift the phone in the other room and could here the modem ringing a number. I realized this should not be the case, so I checked the phone number to the ISP. I had mistakenly entered the wrong number. I can only hope the person on the other end has a forgiving heart, I tried this many times through the night. OUCH! Once the number was corrected, I re-edited the wvdial.conf to its original settings and re-tried, with success. I am now sending this email over that connection. However, I get this timeout message and it drops the line: WvDial<*1>: Connect time 7.0 minutes. WvDial<*1>: Disconnecting at Fri Feb 15 13:09:25 2008 WvDial<*1>: The PPP daemon has died: Lack of LCP echo responses (exit code = 15) WvDial<*1>: man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail. WvDial<Notice>: I guess that's it for now, exiting WvDial<*1>: Provider is overloaded(often the case) or line problem. WvDial<Notice>: The PPP daemon has died. (exit code = 15) smaknj@Smaknj-Laptop:~$ Thanks for your patience. You've done a marvellous job getting me going. Thanks! John, Try an Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +MS=34 if that works try Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +MS=90 The default +MS=92 compression is Not well implemented at some IPs. Also should you have a noisy line, lower compression will help. We have had a report of that curing a manifest "No carrier" problem. This "No carrier" message may be in some cases a bug. With my VIA modem, slmodemd supported, there is a "No carrier" message althrough the CONNECTion and PPPD is established. MarvS
