Did you select the correct serial port for your modem? Is it external or internal? If external, is the power on? are the cables okay? If internal, is it a dreaded PCI modem? Also, you might want to try talking to your modem with minicom. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+