People- I am noticing a trend here on a Linux box that I maintain remotely: I have a Windows 98 box on my desk. I have a modem connected to Com2. Remotely I have a SuSE Linux box running 7.0 and the 2.2.18 kernel, with an external modem on com1. I open up a telnet client on my Windows box. Using Hayes AT- commands, I connect to the remote client (eg, ATDT#######). I connect, I login, everything works great for a couple of minutes. Then- suddenly- I type stuff, and I don't see it. Somehow, my characters are not echoing back or something. 20-30 seconds (or more?) later, all my newlines and stuff appear. Ok, so they were stuck for a while, right? (First question: why? What freed them?) But then- I type, and once again they don't appear. I can't tell if the computer is getting them or not, or if I am simply not seeing the echo, because after a few minutes I get impatient and disconnect. Then I reconnect and all seems well again. Sometimes, however, I get the same behavior. I'm logged in right now and- no problem (it seems). Maybe it will be ok for the next 10 minutes or so; soon I go to bed. Here are my processes on ttyS0, com1: root 697 1 0 22:26 ttyS0 00:00:00 login -- schwager schwager 698 697 0 22:27 ttyS0 00:00:00 -bash root 722 698 0 22:28 ttyS0 00:00:00 su root 723 722 0 22:28 ttyS0 00:00:00 bash root 760 723 0 22:35 ttyS0 00:00:00 ps -ef I am using mgetty on S0; here is my inittab entry: S0:123:respawn:/usr/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 -D -n 2 /dev/ttyS0 If anyone has any ideas, I'd be happy to hear them... My Windows box seems to work just fine over PPP to my ISP, and I think I have had this problem from my laptop's modem too. I think the problem is on the Linux side... -- -Mike suse-list@Linux.Schwager.com -o) Go to www.forsitesolutions.com to read Linux /\\ "Guides for Reasonably Intelligent People" _\_v The list will grow as I do.