fire up gpm (console mouse driver/server) start using it to copy/paste and see if that does the same, if it does then it is for sure a conflict(doesnt have to be an IRQ conflict it can be an I/O conflict)
if not..not sure what to reccomend, it is a hardware modem right and not a winmodem ..while most winmodems dont work in linux there are a few that do. nate On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Kurt Swigart wrote: kswiga >My ppp connection quits working when I start X. It doesn't happen all kswiga >the time, just about 60%. Stopping X does not make it better. The kswiga >problem seems to be with the modem (or the serial port), since even if kswiga >I kill pppd, I cannot communicate with the modem. I can't even send it kswiga >"ATZ". I have found no way to "reset" the problem except to reboot. kswiga > kswiga >I first thought that there may be an IRQ conflict between the mouse kswiga >and the modem, but that is not it. I did not have this problem with kswiga >the same hardware but with my old Slackware distribution. When I kswiga >switched to debian, the problem started. kswiga > kswiga >I have an external Supra 28.8k modem on ttyS3 (irq 3). My mouse is on kswiga >ttyS0 (irq 4). kswiga > kswiga >Thanks, Kurt kswiga > kswiga >[EMAIL PROTECTED] kswiga > kswiga > kswiga >-- kswiga >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null kswiga > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 12:57pm up 160 days, 1:04, 1 user, load average: 0.99, 1.00, 1.00