Winmodems are soft modems, that's why they are not detected under Linux. I also had same problem in my laptop. I'm still not very good at Linux but following links were very helpful to me. http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/G.Wilford/Inspiron8500/ http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/dell-i8500-linux Though, to download the drivers i had to use an external modem with serial port. But after building the drivers from the downloaded code, my winmodem works fine. Hope these will be helpful for you as well. Good luck. Vikas Please respond to fedora-list@redhat.com Sent by: fedora-list-admin@redhat.com To: fedora-list cc: bcc: Subject: Re: Drivers for Winmodems <tt>On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, James Bachman wrote: </tt> <tt>> Hello all, > > I am new to the group, so if this post needs to go elsewhere please advise. > > I recently installed Fedora on my 4 year old Gateway. It is a Pentium III, > 500 MHz, 384 MB RAM, 20 GB drive. It has an internal 3Com U.S. Robotics 56k > PCI Voice Ready Winmodem. > > Everything about Fedora works wonderfully well and the installation was a > piece of cake. Congratulations to all who worked on it. Having spent 5 days > over Thanksgiving trying to rebuild a Windows 98 SE box, and winding up with > a limping system, the difference with the 2 hour install and configuration > of Fedora was glaringly obvious. But I digress. > > I am unable to coax any response from the modem. I know the modem works as > it was functional under Windows 98 SE just before I loaded Fedora (I did not > keep the Windows 98 SE environment and have no desire to go back to it). It > is my understanding that Winmodems are "mentally deficient" and rely on the > Windows Operating System to run properly. I suspect I need a special device > driver for Linux/Fedora to get this modem to function. > > Is this a potentially correct analysis of the problem? If so, can anyone > point me to where I might find such a special driver? Or is the alternative > to buy a proper modem and configure that? </tt> <tt>http://www.linmodems.org </tt> <tt>If you can't get satisfaction there, then a real modem is the next solution. </tt> <tt>> > I do not yet have access to high speed internet (I live in a dial up world) > as I am somewhat remote and service is not quite yet available in my area. > > Thanks in advance for any and all help offered. > > Regards, > > Jay Bachman > </tt> <tt>-- Matthew Saltzman</tt> <tt>Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs </tt> <tt>-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</tt> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get the best from British Airways at ba.com http://www.ba.com