Hi, 1.Please put a "subject" on your mail so we can reffer to something. 2.KDE manual asks before everything if you could connect without using KDE and then to go to kppp but this is not really necessary. 3.Linux has something against the mothers in low. Myself I could only connect using my own account. 4.I had also problems with kppp ( hanging, beggining to dial before getting the dial tone, etc) and I solved them editing a good line for the initialisation of the modem.The default you find in KDE is not allways good. For exemple my line is: AT S7=7 S0=0 S6=5 L3 V1 X3 &c1 E1 Q0 This is in the widow "Edit Modem Commands" In the device window you have to put dev/modem.This works only if previously you used the Redhat Control Pannel, the Modem tool to tell the system on which serial port is your modem. I think is better if you use first the RedHat Control Pannel to configure the ppp and then go to KDE. Firt I tried my connection with Minicom and then when I configured kppp it worked from the first attempt. Hope it helps you. Best regards, Cristian Carnutu