I just had the same problem - I needed to update the driver of Westell WireSpeed, because XP does not support it. However unbelievable it may be that the Westell site does not have a driver update, the Verizon site (I have Verizon DSL) did not have an update for the driver either. Their latest "Westell Modem Driver Update" (http://onlinehelp.verizon.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=20,E=0000000000000919837,K=139,Sxi=18,problem=10300,command=restart,varset_sitevar=west_dsl), turned out to be a tool ModemUpgrade.exe which already expected a network connection to connect to god knows where. It asked me to reboot my machine, after which the machine was dead. I had to reboot in "last known working configuration" to get rid of their __stuff__. Also, notice that the latest version of the tool they had was for Win2000Pro (yes, as of Feb 17, 2004). Which leads me to the real reason why I attempted all this - I cleaned up one of my machines, and my ASOUND LAN PCI 10/100 net card did not work properly with the modem over the Ethernet cable (using the USB cable was blocked by the missing driver problem). I tried to get a driver for that card from www.asound.com.tw (site could not be found), and then from www.asound.net (site did not have drivers). And I took these two sites from the floppy disk, which came originally with the ASOUND card. Moral of the story 1: Beware of products from Westell, ASOUND, and Verizon. Moral of the story 2: Brothers and sisters, next time you need to buy a NIC, do yourselvers a big favor, buy that standard 3Com or Intel card, and forget about it. Peter

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