Thanks very much for your help, Stephen, Brian and Joe. I'm very grateful. Nice to hear from the lucky country when you're an exile in London.
As far as I can tell, this is the only driver available. I've just installed a newer version, and the same thing happens. Contents of /etc/modules.conf are as follows: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 alias /dev/ttySHCF[0-9]* hcfpciserial alias char-major-240 hcfpciserial alias /dev/cuaHCF[0-9]* hcfpciserial alias char-major-241 hcfpciserial alias /dev/modem hcfpciserial options hcfpciserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241 pcivendorid=0x14F1 pcideviceid=0x1036 Doing a 'modprobe hcfpciserial' doesn't change anything I'm afraid, nor does substituting any of the aliases. I think it must be something to do with the drivers being loaded only under user id, because I've just found out how to restart X via the GUI after logging out of a KDE session. This does not cause the modem to pack up (works for all users), presumably because there was never a need to become root in this process. I'd still like to know whether the entries in /etc/modules.conf will load the drivers for root, and if not how one alters them, if only as an exercise in understanding. But anyway, in future there will be no problem. Sorry for the trouble and my ignorance - only started with Linux a couple of weeks ago. Many thanks again Richard
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