Guess I was lucky because I had very little trouble getting my modem to work with 7.0 but my luck ran out when I tried to connect to my ISP. I'm using pppd. My ISP's tech support supplied all the setup parameters needed but that is as far as they would help. When I called to ask for help with this question I was told that I could use LINUX if I "had to" but they would not support it in any way. I connect, I logon to the network and then the error message pops up stating that... "The ppd daemon died unexpectedly!". The log file lists: pppd 2.3.10 started by root uid0 using interface ppp0 connect ppp0 <---> /dev/cua1 lcp: timeout sending config-requests "The remote system does not seem to answer to configuration request. Contact your provider." Any suggestions? Thanks!!! Lori Rothermel