After lots of google and research, I eventually got my modem to dial under Suse 9.1 (couldn't get box suse 10). The problem is that in a short period of time, my whole machine just locks up which doesn't occur until modem is activated. My guess is irq conflict, currently using irq 16 which is same as what video is using, I have tried switching to a different pci slot but same problem occurs. Tried deactivating irq3 and irq 4 in bios, still no effect. I suspect that if I can force the modem to use irq 3 or 4 that the problem will go away, is this possible? I have checked the log and wrote down the bit I thought might be relevant which was
Unable to handle kernel null pointer dereference at virtual address does this mean that the kernel module is basically stuffed for the modem?
