Hello, After my laptop has been in standby (ahh, I remember those long lost days when I could put the laptop into save to disk mode, but I digress) the PCMCIA modem behaves very strangely. I have to remove it and then relace it until it beeps not twice but three times. Only then will it dial. If I don't do this kppp gets as far as saying 'dialing' but it doesn't actually do it. For a long time with the 2.4 kernel it took a long time before the modem was really activated so dialling could commence. I.e. about 30 seconds after the laptop was woken up the second modem beep would be heard. Then dialling could commence. This may well be a related problem, except now you have to remove the modem, and make it beep three times ! Owen
