Dear all, +apologies to ADIII and Marv for dups due to bounced HTML stuff in answered mail. I just wish to remind the exact hardware architecture which ADIII is trying to use. His modem is NOT a USB modem but an old style (old means excellent, quite often) SERIAL modem. His computer has no DB25/DB9 serial port. ADIII connects his modem to an "interface adapter" device Prolific model PL2303 embedded in a cable which has an USB connector connected to the computer and a DB9 connector connected to the modem. This is not just a passive cable. It contains a chip and needs a special driver in the computer if the chip is intended to emulate a serial port. Prolific says that this driver is included in any "recent" kernel beyond RH9! (!!!). I humbly suggest that ADIII's problem may AMONG OTHERS be due to his old modem using some pins not emulated in the driver. In particular I sort of remember that ADIII's modem needs a 25 pins RS232 cable. My own PL2303 which I do *not* use for a modem was delivered with a DB9-ended cable and a dumb DB9<->DB25 pin to pin converter for users in need of using a 25 pins device (not my case). In my case I only need the transmit and ground pins, but who knows which pins ADIII's modem needs and if the driver knows how to handle them... Jacques
