> > It's also interesting to note that the modem works fine under W2k. Oh, and > I thought that that it could have been pppd not correctly telling my modem > to disconnect, so I tried echoing "ATH0" to the device after the connection > was brought down, which didn't help... > > Any ideas? >
sounds more like the modem is not getting reset properly. The modem book (or online docs on cdrom) should have a AT string that will reset the modem, try adding that just before the dial command. When I worked at an ISP we had to do this sometimes.

