The phaenomenon: my system regularly freeses completely. A couple of times this resulted in dataloss, although I have a reiserFS. This freesing only happens a fraction of a second after I did something with KInternet. Till today this occured only right after I closed an open connection. Today it happend for the first time after I changed the provider, still being offline.
So I conclude that it cannot be related to my hardware or driver but must be a bug in KInternet itself.
Changing provider doesn't change your hardware or driver, and your symptoms are consistent with kernel/driver lockups. I have seen something very similar with SuLi 9.1 and the Intel536 losemodem driver which was shortly after withdrawn again for that freezing reason. Try different modem hardware. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.