In article <3546311D.9D874C43@kamping.com> you wrote: > I inserted my modem at a 14.4 irq5 /com4. > Now, I get the following messages: > mgetty FATAL: yS4 cannot get terminal line dev=ttyS4, exiting Isn't com4 the same as ttyS3, not ttyS4? What does the kernel say at boot time. Try a grep 'kernel: tty0' /var/log/messages -- Erik Corry