Hi, Las mont I reported in SLE that I was getting the string "ovider" printed by the wvdial program when run on a terminal: --> Using interface ppp0 --> pppd: ovider --> pppd: ovider --> pppd: ovider --> Authentication (CHAP) started Then, after some kernel update, it changed to "Provider". Today, after I added a comment to /etc/wvdial.conf, it has changed to: --> pppd: Inherits --> pppd: Inherits Which is also a string contained in the wvdial.conf file, and I suppose, in the token space of the wvdial program. On a spanish Knoppix 3.4 live CD, the message is "espera", that is, "wait". That seems a quite more reasonable message. There is some weird string management there, an out of bounds or a not initialised pointer perhaps. Seems dangerous to me... the type of error that leads to a memory overflow and user user scalation or whatever it is called. That would be a security problem. Not to mention the speed limit of 2 Kb/s... but that is perhaps an unrelated problem. I forgot, this is SuSE 9.1. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson