> I tried to upgrade my 2.2.14 kernal to 2.2.16 , all worked well > but pppd failed to work afterwards. What sort of modem do you have? I know that the security for ppp was upped in 2.2.16. I've got an LT modem (grrr) and had to edit "linux/tty.h" to move the "poll_wait" line to the last line of the "tty_struct". This got ppp to work for me. Jeff