Hi, I keep trying to configure my modem, internal Aztech SoftK56 PCI, without success. It works fine in Win but I can't get it to work with Linux. I tried to find linux drivers on the net for this modem but I didn't. I'm just getting my feet wet with linux and I woul welcome any help. The whole installation process did run nicely with the exception of the internet connection which is the one thing that I'm really heaving dificulties with. Please any tips or advice, very welcome. Thanks Antonio Pan

I'm sorry to say that internal, software modems are not very well catered for in the Linux world at present. There are attempts to write drivers for them, a good site for this is www.linmodems.org, but they are not very good as yet. Thinga will probably improve over time but the best solution as always is a good old-fashioned external modem, plug it in, forget it and just keep browsing

There _are_ hardware modems which are internal (PCI-slot), and obviously those will work in a Linux system using the standard "async" driver (automatically loaded in redhat). These modems are hard to find, as the demand is more for cheap software modems (which work only on windows). These software modems are a poor design, as they are software (driver) dependent, and use the cpu for all the work. And there are usb modems conforming to the "USB-modem" standard, and they will work in a Linux system with no problems at all. Then there are standard serial modems, which have a usb cable attached to them via a usb-serial converter device (which has to be supported under linux), and those will work too. And obviously standard AT modems with a serial cable work great. astropicachu, you should get a new modem.

Hi Phil and Audiophile, Thanks for the replies. I've failled to mentioned that my modem is a PCI modem. Anyway, It seems that all in all is easier to get a new modem and get on with it as you both say. Once again thanks a lot. If anything else comes to mind, please let me know. Astropicachu

If you have an old ISA modem card (like the ones with jumpers on to set the com port etc), that should work.

Well, I've just realise that Telewest Blueyounder does not support Linux. I suppose I can always get another ISP but the question is: Can I, for example, install the Freeserve software on linux and o the whole thing as if it were on WIN? Or how oes it work with linux?

Rather than installing any software from the ISP, all you need is the phone number, username and password (unless you have something weird like an AOL account in which case you do need some software). You can thhen enter this information into wvdial, kppp etc - whatever you use to dial up with. Although BlueYonder do not support linux, doesn't mean that it wont work. If you use a router with RJ45 instead of USB then it should work fine. Is set up blueyonder at my sisters house when installing a wireless network and all I had to do was to register the MAC address of the wireless router with blueyonder for it to work. Speaking to the chap there you can give up to 5 hardware addresses so you might want to inform them of your NIC in your linux box. You don't need to say that you're running linux. I did and the guy said "Oh, sorry we don't support it." I just said that I didn't want support for the operating system, just to register the MAC.