Hello list. I seem to be having great difficulty with my serial ports being engaged. I have a motherboard from JDR Microdevices with the VIA chipset on it, (Host bridge: VIA technologies VT 82C598 Apollo MVP3 (rev 4) PCI Bridge same as Host Bridge. ISA Bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 71) Ethernet controller 3Com Vendor id=10b7 Device id=9004 cpu is an AMDK6-400 If you need more info, I will gladly provide it. Use of serial ports seems to interfere with speed of adsl connection, this is a great and frustrating mystery to me. Any and all help appreciated.