NO CARRIER - again

hello,

sorry to bother you again about this, but after another reinstall of 
Slackware 11 and a kernel recompile etc, I am once again getting the 
message "NO CARRIER" when dialing. I have tried the kernel boot 
parameter "pci=routeirq" as suggested, and the carrier check option in 
wvdial, but I still get the same result - the modem getting 'stuck' on 
one particular bit of dialing, resulting in a NO CARRIER message.

i have upgraded to the latest driver, and am using kernel 2.6.18.2.