Fedora 5 works perfectly, except usb modem

[William d'Ormond]

Point of e-mail: How do you get fedora 5 to detect and install a USB dial-up
modem (DC-009 V2 Sitecom)?

Hi everyone,

I'm not really a linux newbie... but please treat me as one.
A long time ago I installed Fedora 3 and had a lovely time with it. But then
my laptop's internal winmodem broke (I had spent considerable effort getting
it to run with smartlink linmodem drivers (slmodem 2.7.9 or something like
that)).

I then went and bought a USB modem. This I thought would cure all problems
associated with linux compatibility. It works under Windows, obviously,
however, I have now moved completely on to Fedora 5 and deleted the windows
partition.
Fedora 5 does not detect anything when the USB modem is plugged in... in
fact it only detects the broken internal modem which I cannot use. This is
strange as the modem lights on the USB modem turn on when I plug it into a
USB port.

I now have absolutely NO IDEA how to start getting this stupid USB modem to
work under linux. Smartlink has given up linux support it seems, and has
switched to connexant (linuxant.com). Actually I can't find the chipset of
this modem under google anywhere, and can't detect it at all in linux, so
I'm not even sure it's a Connexant chipset. I am presuming it is an HCF
modem type?????

Can someone please help me out, because I won't be able to access internet
at home if I can't dial up a connection on my phone line.

Thanks!

W
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