Hi All Until recently, I had been using a Huawei E220 UMTS modem for my mobile broadband. It had been working perfectly, but now a strange problem has crept in somewhere. When I connect, after about 15-20 seconds after making a successful connection, the GNOME toolbars become unresponsive, however icons on the desktop and windows that are already open still work. I can also still right click to bring up context menus. About 15-20 seconds after that, the whole desktop becomes unresponsive - nothing works, except that the mouse pointer still moves - no buttons though. Its really got me baffled as to what could be causing this. I have tried the Huawei E220 (USB) and also a Novatel Merlin U630 (PCMCIA) modem, and on the dialler side, Vodafone Mobile Card Connect (which I usually use) and UMTSMON. The same problem occurs regardless of the modem or software. Connecting to the internet via the 'regular' wireless network still works fine, so this leads me to think the problem is with pppd or possibly wvdial and/or chat. I am using F8, latest updates, no exotic/3rd party drivers. I was using the ATI supplied divers but removed them, just to make sure. Anyone have any suggestions? -- bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
