One thought I have is that the modem and the mouse are sharing the same IRQ. Make sure that one device is connected to an even number serial port and the other to an odd. There are 4 standard serial devices 1,2,3,and 4 . 1 and 3 share IRQ 4 and 2 and 4 share IRQ 3. If the devices are on the same irq, you will get funny results. John Miller Dain Rauscher Inc. Application Services IS Capital Markets Phone 612-547-7573 Fax 612-547-7580 -----Original Message----- From: Karen K. Brostoski [mailto:maetkare at ix.netcom.com] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 4:41 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] SuSE serial/com issue I'm a newbie, Linux-wise. I've been working on SuSE 6.3 for a while now and everything is great, it's a little bit of a learning curve, but I am having 'a lot of fun'. I just have one problem. Just one, or maybe you might call it two... There is a conflict between my (plain and generic) serial mouse and the (Supra 56k) PCI modem. I can connect online just fine, but after a few minutes, the speed stalls. If I jiggle the mouse... it speeds up again. When I stop jiggling the mouse, it slowly goes down in speed, then stalls... until I jiggle the mouse. :) Well, I opened a terminal and checked to see if there is a conflict. I can see on boot that they are sharing an IRQ. I went into the BIOS and tried switching the IRQs... didn't work. I just switched them, then I tried using the IRQ10, since it was the only other option. The mouse didn't even work then. I know I could give more details, but I don't want to spam and am not sure what might be needed to troubleshoot this. I remember trying 'setserial' last year for this problem, but it didn't fix it. However, I don't remember exactly what I typed in, since it's been a year since I tried that one. I'm not Linux-savvy enough for all this yet. So... SuSE 6.3, sharing a computer (P133, 6GB drive) with Win98. No problems with anything but this modem/mouse issue. Win98 can connect online with no such conflict, but I'd much rather use Linux! Help/Advice... is welcome! PS: I moved to Minneapolis several months ago. I was directed to your mailing list by a nice man I met at Barnes & Noble last night, in the computer book section. So, if he's reading this: Thanks! - Karen _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list