Thanks Christopher I'll try out your various suggestions.
I was running minicom via sudo, i.e.: sudo minicom -s but I didn't really know what to do once I was in there. This is a laptop, so it's geographically located wherever I want! I live in Opawa and work at Tait (near the airport). Were there mutterings of a meeting in May sometime? I'm planning to come along in any case. Douglas. Christopher Sawtell wrote: >[snip] >Geographically, where is this recalcitrant modem situated? > > >