HELP!!! Please save me from my stupidity! My modem no longer works in linux at all! If your suggestions help me, then I won't have go into the long gory details. Because I'm working from that dark place called windoze, right now, because I'm sick, and also working on a couple hours of sleep, I've had to write this e-mail 3 times already. It keeps getting shorter each time. I was running some tests on the init strings. I do not have a functioning kppp at present, and therefore can't use its' terminal program. I also don't have any other terminal program to directly send commands to the modem from the keyboard. Sooo... To run these tests I have been editing a -new- copy of wvdial.conf and running wvdial from the shell. Long story really short... Here's what I think is going on. I am now getting errors from the output of wvdial (using the tried and true -saved- copy of wvdial.conf). I am told that there are errors with the name servers and www.suse.de can't be found!?! So now I can't use wvdial or kinternet to connect. I swear I didn't program the wrong init string in the modem, because I am able to get it to work in windoze. I went exploring in yast, but I aborted all areas that I was clueless about. Well, apparently not all!!! PLEASE Save Me!!! Bernd