| I don't really know if I am communicating with 
anyone or not, but here goes.... I am using Red Hat 8, start minicom, and 
immediately after the message "initializing modem" appears, the cursor hangs up, 
will not accept any keyboard input and never recieve the "OK" prompt to test the 
dialing function in the modem.  The modem is ESS (Creative) and was 
recognized and configured by KUDZU at boot up after installation.  It has 
been assigned to /dev/ttyS1, IRQ 3.  Can anyone help?  As you can tell 
by my question, I am a beginner and woulld really like to switch to LINUX from 
Windows, but must get online.  Somebody please help! Bob Dunlap |