Hi there, Thanks for the help! There were lots of weird M type characters in the .conf file, I fixed it ran pnpdump and got the following output: [start] lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked Board 1 has Identity a9 ff ff ff ff 36 42 63 0e: CSC4236 Serial No -1 [checksum a9] Board 2 has Identity 7b fe db eb ab 31 30 72 56: USR3031 Serial No 4275825579 [checksum 7b] Board USR3030/-1612403801 not found - skipping [end] So I told YaST that the modem lived under Com1, entered ISP info and nameserver. Made sure there was no .lock in ppp/options and punched all the info in kppp, but it still just says "modem busy" In the BIOS setup, I set the irq for Com1 to ISA type instead of PCi/PnP And under the motherboard options I changed com1 form auto to disbaled. So I'm baffled again, but at least something has been accomplished :-) Please help if you can, Cheers! Dom -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html