Any suggestions on where I could find drivers for a Lucent Winmodem? That's the only name I have for it. It was taken out of another computer (HP) a while ago and just recently put into this PC. I also saw the name Agere on the chipset. I have downloaded tons of drivers and none have worked. I tried drivers from DriverGuide.com, Agere.com, http://www.villagegeek.com/techsupport/Drivers.htm, and others through Google searching. I've tried drivers (either zip or exe) named "modem---", where "---" has been 520, 544, 575, 590, 600, and 822. The modem is currently being detected by Win98 as "PCI Communication Device", waiting for me to pick a driver. Everyone I've tried gives me the message saying it's not specifically written for that hardware and may not work. (And none have worked if I made it use the driver anyway) Any ideas on how to find a driver that will work?

Find out which model HP and go to their site. www.hp.com then search for driver by computer model #

go to hp and try model pavilion 6830 i think you will see lucent winmodem in there!

The Lucent WinModem driver doesn't install normally. The standard most updated one is: modem8.22.exe. When you install the modem you do not point windows to the driver file. It is a self-extracting file that installs the drivers automatically. Then when you reboot your computer windows will find new pci communication hardware and install the software. If it does not at that point, then point the windows hardware wizard to the c:\windows\temp file because that is where it has extracted to by default. P.S. There is a link to this driver on my site.

Also these drivers are pretty much standard. I used the same driver on about 3 or 4 different Lucent modems. Some were PCI's and some were ISA's and they still installed the same way by extracting the files and then it ask you if you want to install the drivers for the modem now. I even installed the drivers on a pc that didn't have a lucent modem in because I wanted to test the file before I took it to the problem pc. The driver will work if you don't tell windows to find it for you.

Just downloaded modem822.exe... Ran it, it installed drivers, then I rebooted, it detected the PCI Communication Device, but won't accept the drivers. It say no suitable driver was found, and if I point it to C:\[windir]\TEMP, it won't use the drivers there. Any other ideas?

Are there any names and numbers on the chips? I recently was able to get modem drivers by entering this information in the search box for Google! Also, consider posting this on the Drivers Forum.