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> I'm seriosly consider shift to Linux, but I don't have drivers for Mwave = > (that's means -> modem!!! and sound board) and for Xircom board (my = > network connection). If anyone knows drivers for that stuff I'm very = > interested. for the Xircom card, i understand that the reason there's been no Xircom drivers is that Xircom has ben unwilling to provide technical info for free. the guy who wrote the card services package mentioned in his last release notes that Xircom has changed this policy, so there may be Xircom support soon -- i know that everybody wants it. (i recently had to return my cool Xircom combo card so that i could get a Linux-supported 3com card. clearly it would make sense for Xircom to support the linux market.) for the MWave, i don't know where support would come from. i know there is a DSP development toolkit available for Linux which might let you write one ... the modem-simulator may work anyway if, at the BIOS level, it tells the system that it's a serial port. this is how most modular modem cards work. but either way, one cool thing about Linux is that you don't really have to abandon your current operating system to use it, unless your hard disk is super-small. you can use the UMSDOS package to create a filesystem inside your DOS partition so that you don't have to repartition or format anything, and at that point it's pretty easy to load linux, try it out, check out the hardware support, and erase it if it doesn't seem useful. -m-