As annoying and prevalent as the subject sounds, the more exasperating the problem it has become for me. I use an integrated mother board (I regret it) with an on-chip modem fixed on the AMR slot, on-chip sound card, on-chip Video card, and an on-chip Ethernet card. So, condensing it becomes, "My system is an integrated on-chip multimedia working station". I use the system to dual-boot into Windows 98 SE and Linux RedHat 7.1, kernel 2.4.2-2 [information in the signature]. It's mortifying per my part to superficially tell you the nature of my problem since you may have guessed it right by now, indefinitely. I have tried downloading pctel drivers from different sources -- some pre-compiled, others that need to be compiled -- but in vain. One of the drivers I download was a pcetl-0.9.6.tar.gz one, that had to be first un-zipped, then configured with the correct parameters, made with the "make" command, and eventually installed and configured onto the machine. The command I use to configure it is: root@localhost:# ./configure --with-kernel-includes=/usr/include --with-hal=SiS Note that I have to manually specify the source files directory since not doing so results in an error whereby the configuration utility doesn't find the "modversions.h" file. I have tried linking it, but even then it doesn't locate it. But, using the above command lands me on the same platform. "modversion.h" not found. Although, manually rummaging about the system for it reveals that its residing ideally in /usr/include/linux folder, but by default, the configuration utility doesn't detect it at /usr/include/linux. This is the first impediment in my way. It says that you need to configure my kernel. May I know what does that mean, and how would I do that? I thought of neglecting this warning and proceed with the "make" command, but of course my attempts were futile. The make commands firstly doesn't find any objects to make on and stops; and when I give it some object, for instance "make install" or "make config" or "make dep", in respective directories, it gives an error that it cannot make onto the specified object. This adds up to the frustration manifold. So, I would like to ask you if you have any suggestions regarding the problem. Please, abstain from suggesting me to buy another modem -- specifically a real hardware modem -- because I think I am going to do that, but some time later. In the mean time, I want to configure my pctel on-chip modem. Any suggestion on the functionality of the "make" command would be highly appreciated. -- TheResilient -Linux RedHat release 7.1 -kernel 2.4.2-2 (SeaWolf)