I've seen this symptom also in the time between power up of the modem and successful network attachment. What fixed it for me was to add to the chatscript: # cease if modem is not attached to network yet ABORT '+CGATT: 0' '' AT+CGATT? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html