i dual boot with winxp, winxp can find my modem, redhat can't, just installed, it didn't come up in the install, i have an eth0, found that, but it won't find the modem, i tried moving the modem around to diff COM ports to see if RH would find it as new hardware, even replaced it with eth0, did not work, just checked the RH site for compatiblity listings, the modem is a Broadcom, it was not there, or at least i could not find it, am i screwed? is there anyway i can for the thing to find it? can i download a compatible driver? do i need a new modem? DAMN YOU DELL COMPUTERS! any suggestions would help. i really want to be able to use the internet and RH, please help. thanks @ugu$tu$

You need a hardware modem......

Hmmm is correct. You either have to guy buy a hardware modem (You have a WinModem). Linux cannot use the winmodem, ever. You can go buy yourself a $70 modem (I think that is the price) Or just not use a modem with the computer.

Get a USR 5610B they cost 79$ at any office store or best buy I even saw one at walmart. It is called Performance Pro it is a PCI internal Hardware modem. Those winmodems even suck in Windoz

Ron's post above hits-da-nail. USR internal hardware modems get sucked right up by RedHat. (Almost) no problems ... you may need to manually add a line to WVDIAL.conf -- when you get there POST back with any question: 3Dave's the BigDog on WVDIAL , but we all have working scripts (from him!).

There are plenty of external serial port controller modems available. USR and Jaton work fine. Externals work with every distro and are easy to set up. There are Linux winmodem drivers, but hardware modems work better and are so cheap there is zero reason to use one.

I have a LT WinModem in my Acer Laptop and i found Alpha Drivers for Linux. So far so good has been running great.