On Wednesday 10 July 2002 12:38, Peter Clark wrote: Replying to myself here: > I'm running Debian, so as far as I know there is no rouge program > resetting my security settings. I found the rouge program, or at least narrowed it down to two: either kppp or ppp itself. I ran 'ls /dev/ttyS3' and saw that everything was good, connected using kppp, and suddenly it's been reset to crw-r-----. > Plus, I still don't know why the modem is stuck at 3.1k. When I first > dial-up, it's averaging between 5k and 6k, just like a 56k modem should, > but then after a while it goes down to 3.1k. I've tried two ISPs and I get > the same behavior, so it's a problem at my end. The answers to both of these problems still elude me... :Peter