Modem steal mouse control!

Hello,

Is this the right place for this question?

On an intermittent basis, the PCI Smart-Modem Winmodem steals my USB IR mouse control. I think one of the other drivers need to be niced up or down!

Apparently a daemon like the slmodemd can’t be “niced” down while it’s running. I don’t know where to look for the mouse driver.

I’m up to 2.6.27.37-0.1-pae kernel on openSuse 11.1.

If your still with me here, the problem seems to start if I loose the dial-up connection. After several redials the modem is “mad”!

I built the modem drivers from tarballs I downloaded from LinModems.

Any thoughts will be appreciated including taking this elsewhere.

Heboland