It may still be a bit early to draw conclusions, but I connected my SpeedTouch 330 modem to a newly purchased USB PCI-card (82C861 from vendor OPTi Inc) in stead of the USB on the motherboard, which uses chipset VIA VT6202. It makes some difference:
the OPTi works great, not a single error message; the VIA gives, as I was used to, dozens of these "CRC errors on AAL5". There is definitely something true about the rumours of VIA chipsets being flaky. Ed Vaessen Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe