dear sirs, i used scanmodem and then followed the advice given... all you may want to see of my stuff is enclosed the modem worked once and then no more, a day later it worked several times, next day nothing happened, today nothing – one real moody device, innit? modem runs smoothly under winxp 'timed out while dialling...' loop causes modem crash ('modem not responding'); have to stop-and-restart slmodemd -a to fix rarely, loop says 'no carrier' too – in such a case, modem doesn't crash mydebug.txt says nothing, no wonder, i daresay, what with no ppp session started i searched archives but found not that much; sweetest post by one hazel who was grateful to have learned a lot, but her problem (looks a lot like mine) was never solved btw: in slmodemd gcc4.3 & 2 there's no 'files' file, no automatizing scripts (got mine from gcc3) btw: in novellsuse (which i use) slmodemd or some equivalent was part of the installation, i assume, also the alsa drivers, and things are supposed to get automatized through configuration process in kinternet, which didn't work, which was why i got to you in the first place (wvdial by itself is the better choice anyway) as for dmesg: there is a line 'ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.6 disabled' bit farther below two lines 'ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 6 (level, low) -> IRQ 6 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64' q: is this the fix? (guess it's not a bootup problem anyway, tried pci=routeirq and pollirq to no avail) what do you say to all that? gonna pester the wvdial guys, too sincerely yours, tobias -- "Feel free" - 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX ProMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail