I recently installed Fedora Core 5. dmesg| grep 'usb' log shows that my modem is bound to node /dev/ttyUSB0 as shown below : usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usbcore: registered new driver libusual usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [PS/2+USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:02.0-1 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices usbcore: registered new driver usbserial drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for IPWireless converter usb 1-2: IPWireless converter converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usbcore: registered new driver ipwtty drivers/usb/serial/ipw.c: IPWireless tty driver v0.3 I created the the 2 scripts : /etc/ppp/peers/sentech noipdefault /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 defaultroute usepeerdns hide-password lcp-echo-interval 60 lcp-echo-failure 3 connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/sentech" noauth persist mtu 1400 user "myusername" maxfail 0 deflate 15 and /etc/chatscripts/sentech TIMEOUT 30 ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "BUSY" ECHO ON SAY "Dialling sentech...\n" "" \rAT "OK-+++\C-OK" ATH0 OK ATZ OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"PPP","sentech.co.za","myusername","mypassword",0,0 OK ATD*99# SAY "WAiting up to 30 seconds for connection ..." CONNECT "" SAY "Connected.." Thereafter , I ran "pppd debug call sentech" , checked the /var/log/ppp directory for logs.The only log present ,called connect-errors had : "Dialling sentech..." and nothing else. What am I doing wrong? -- "All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy." Jeff mob : + 27 82 907 6420 GoogleTalk : ejbengine Skype : ejbengine Registered Linux user number 366042 -- "All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy." Jeff Mutonho Java/J2EE Developer mob : + 27 82 907 6420 GoogleTalk : ejbengine Skype : ejbengine Registered Linux user number 366042