Hi if I insert my merlin U630 UMTS-Card from vodafone into the PCMCIA-Slot I see the following in /var/log/messages. Mar 31 08:54:06 localhost cardmgr[3214]: socket 0: Serial or Modem Mar 31 08:54:06 localhost kernel: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 10) is a 16550A That looks fine. Then I use: minicom to set the PIN which works fine. ( the blue light is blinking/ UMTS) now I start a connection with: % ifup umts and all is fine the connection is established: ppp0 Protokoll:Punkt-zu-Punkt Verbindung inet Adresse:10.XXX.XXX.XXX P-z-P:10.64.64.64 Maske:255.255.255.255 UP PUNKTZUPUNKT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1400 Metric:1 RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:3 RX bytes:110 (110.0 b) TX bytes:182 (182.0 b) routing looks like this: ~ $ netstat -r Kernel IP Routentabelle Ziel Router Genmask Flags MSS Fenster irtt Iface 10.64.64.64 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 default 10.64.64.64 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 But I am very unhappy with the flow rate I got only a max of 8Kb/s. How I can improve this ? If I use the same card on the laptop (dell C800) with W2K then I got 345kb/s. Here my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-umts file: ONBOOT=no USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Modem DEVICE=ppp0 BOOTPROTO=dialup AC=off BSDCOMP=off VJCCOMP=off CCP=off PC=off VJ=off LINESPEED=460800 MODEMPORT=/dev/ttyS1 PROVIDER=umts DEFROUTE=yes PERSIST=no PAPNAME=VFD2 WVDIALSECT=umts MODEMNAME=ModemUMTS DEMAND=no IPV6INIT=no PPPOPTIONS= IDLETIMEOUT=600 MTU=1400 Any hint would be great Thanks Reinhard