I set up a user with a trial of Ubuntu, an external modem, and a KOL connection. (Would be lovely to have broadband, but in this situation broadband is "not on"). Dialup seems to be changing! I had a few problems during testing connecting to Xtra (see http://wlug.org.nz/Xtra ) ... Xtra's prompts upset wvdial. I thought "Oh well, if I can get Xtra to connect, I ought to be able to get KOL to talk using the same technique". Trying the usual methods of connecting didn't give any joy, so I used putty to find out what was happening. Name and Password was fine, but then KOL responded with a binary string, repeated every second or so, 6th byte incrementing, for a while and then disconnected. The string is ... ff 03 c0 21 01 dc 00 12 01 04 7f d5 03 04 c0 23 05 06 77 2d 1d b1 (dc was the byte that incremented with each message) Is this familiar to anyone? I haven't rung KOL as the website claims no support for Linux, and I wouldn't expect normal help-desk staff to be able to answer that query anyway. At worst, I've donated, $10 to KOL! Now that the user has the computer, I've got to set up another one for testing. :-) (Not a problem!) Any suggestions? Michael