Hello Michael, interesting that a friend of mine had almost the same setup as yours (same modem, same OS) & same problem with Bitware & the 'engaged' Com port. Because he had several problems with his system which we practically did solve at the same time we couldn't exactly tell what it was what had helped in the end. Also he decided to use the standard dialer that came with Windows 95 instead of Bitware. However this is what I think could be wrong with yours: Michael Reiter wrote: > While doing the setup there is > always "Another application active" on com2. What could that be? Have a look in your BIOS Setup. Is there an option 'Peripheral Setup' ? Highly likely that your error is because of the same address for both ports. See that you do have different addresses for Serial Port 1 & Serial Port 2. Something like this would be ok: Serial Port 1 2F8h Serial Port 2 3F8h To unsubscribe, send a message to listar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe calmira_tips" in the body. OR visit http://freelists.dhs.org