trying to set up a modem today. minicom couldn't initialise it... the modem (external dynalink 56k) worked fine under windows (though different machine)... looking thru dmesg showed the serial ports were seen... /dev/modem was linked to /dev/ttyS0, modem was cabled to COM1 there was some suggestion from a deja search that having an ISA card in the machine (expansion to add 2nd parallel port) might interfere with probing, anyone experience anything like that ?? i was at a loss to where to go from here... later marty "I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want because I'm me." - Corduroy, Pearl Jam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug