Hi there, I have just spent virtualy the whole weekend trying to get certain things to get working under my new SuSE Linux 5.2 installation and got very little accomplished. I got the soundcard to work, and printing to my Epson Stylus 600 works OK, but at a snail's pace. I still have the following problems: Problem 1: Can't get serial comms to work. Have tried minicom, seyon, ezppp and wvdial. None of these work. Basically, I can get my modem to dial and establish a connection to either of my ISP's but get no data throughput which means that I never get to the login prompt no matter how many times I tap the return key. I have only one option at this point: hangup - which also works fine!. Problem 2: Scripts don't run. Neither shell scripts nor perl scripts run despite the '#!/bin/sh' and '#!/usr/bin/perl' lines being present. I just get 'Command not found'. I accidentally found that I *could* execute scripts while logged in as a user other then root so it appears that only root cannot execute scripts. In both cases I have been working as root because I want to set things up. I am aware of the rule 'use root only for administrative tasks'. Once I am sure everything is working OK I will use a standard user account. Has anyone experienced or can help me resolve these proplems? I ended up doing a complete re-install twice to try and get these problems (particularly the comms one) resolved but no joy. At the moment my opinion of SuSE Linux is very low. I should not have to spend two full days installing and doing a basic config of an operating system! I would appreciate having my confidence in it restored! Regards. John Chajecki, Network Consultant (CNE4) LAN/Wan Team, IT Services, C&TS Town Clerk's Dept., Leicester City Council E-mail: chajj001@leicester.gov.uk, Tel:44 116 252 7661 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e