Hi, Can you help me figure out what's going on with my modem? When I try to connect to the net the first window that comes up is one that asks for my root password to run net-monitor. Why is it doing this? Then it tries to connect and fails and when I close the window it still tries to connect over and over again even though nothing shows on the desktop that it's doing that. I've been trying a couple of different modems and at this point Harddrake is saying that I have the internal modem installed but I don't. I have an external modem. How do I remove this hardware config and tell it to use the the external one? It's confusing to me that the system tells me I have a PCI modem but in fact it's and external modem and yet it still works... in the sense that it sending a signal to the external modem. The modem works on the win98 side. I have Mandrake 8.2 installed.