Well....Its taken a lot of time, I managed to find a isa modem that suse 8.1 would accept. Using it right now, same equipment that caused all the headache a few days ago. Different OS and different modem, (I tried all my modems with winders 98se and winme before switching). Awful lot of time just waiting for a K6-2-450 to boot, Sheeeeze I anit doing this again. LINUX was the ans I guess.