interesting... for some strange reason i was able to get the usb gsm modem to work via usbserial and pl2303 kernel module... strange i tried this setup february.. before the elections *grin* and it just didnt work and i have to reformat the machine to win2003... ok the next step is to check out if i can get the same behaviour on hte beastie box... also time to read those gsm at comand set again and see how well this modem performs... at least there's no need to order those serial models which requires a separate power adaptor...