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So, I'm in Grenoble now on my sabbatical and I'm happily hooked into my new network, etc. I have a small problem with dialup, however. The only modem I'm using is the MWAVE modem, so it might be peculiar to that situation. I am connecting to the French telephone system through an adapter that takes me from the French telephone plug to the North American (RJ-whatever) plug. I use Windows for dial in sessions. The problem is this: when I try to dial using the modem (ATD in terminal, or "dial" in kermit), I get the response "no dial tone". However, if I first open the line (AT H1 in Hayes parlance), and then do an ATD..., I am able to dial out and connect just fine, using either pulse or tone dialing. So, as it stands, I must manually open the line and then dial. I really don't think I should need the first bit. I think I can work around this by inserting an ATH1 followed by a pause, and then the dialing sequence, but I haven't been able to try this yet. I tried changing the "country code" in the ThinkPad MWAVE group, but it complained that I was using the wrong connector for European telephony (France, however, is not in the country code list for some reason). Has anyone experienced similar, admittedly minor, problems taking a ThinkPad with North American telephony abroad? Regards, Eugene Fiume.