Drivers for Winmodems

[James Bachman]

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?

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
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