After trying many different things, changing settings around, Now slmodemd now works great!! I added to /etc/init.d/slmodemd the line sleep3 here after the rest ****************************************** # Only this part was modified start() { cat /proc/modules | grep 'slamr' >/dev/null || { echo -n "Loading SmartLink Modem driver into kernel ... " modprobe slamr && echo "done." || { echo "failed." exit -1 } } sleep 3 echo -n "Starting SmartLink Modem driver for $SLMODEMD_DEVICE: " $prog </dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null \ --country=$SLMODEMD_COUNTRY $SLMODEMD_OPTS /dev/$SLMODEMD_DEVICE & RETVAL=$? [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && success $"$prog startup" || failure $"$prog startup" echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog return $RETVAL } # rest of file goes here ****************************************** No more *****slmodemd dead but subsys locked****** No more!!! Reading from http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=30067 at the very end of the thread I saw cp -a /dev/slamr0 /etc/udev/devices and as superuser I typed that at the prompt and rebooted. Everything now works. Thanks to all who helped and gave suggestions. Regards, Antonio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com