i,m a beginner to linux and need fast help.......!!!!!!
 

hi i,m absolutely beginner with linux and i,m using red hat enterprise 5
and need to connect to the internet .......and i have a dial up connection
.......how i can configure the driver of the modem card???!!!!!
please any one can answer me?!!!!!!!

Welcome to LQ!!

To get "fast help" here, you need to give complete information. For starters, we would need to know what your modem is. Try "lspci" and "dmesg" to get info on the modem.

Have you tried configuring with whatever is in the setup menus? If so, tell us what specific problems you found.

What is the make and model of your card?

You'll have to use PPP most likely for dial-up under Linux.
I have found a couple of useful guides for you:
http://www.knowplace.org/pages/howto..._ppp_howto.php
http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/ppp/

THX ..for all of ur useful comments ..actually i tried to use openSUSE 11 and i executed lspci command and av got the follows:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: f0000000-f1ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-efffffff
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at b000 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at b400 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at b800 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at f2100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: f2000000-f20fffff
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix, piix

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
I/O ports at c400 [size=4]
I/O ports at c800 [size=8]
I/O ports at cc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 0500 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=64]
Memory at f2101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at f2102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: C.P. Technology Co. Ltd Device 2093
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at f1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel modules: radeonfb

01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
Subsystem: C.P. Technology Co. Ltd Device 2092
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
Memory at f1010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 1049
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp

02:04.0 Modem: SILICON Laboratories Intel 537 [Winmodem] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: SILICON Laboratories Device 3000
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
Memory at f2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at a400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: serial

wht i haffta to do to make a dialup connection now??

if any other device that u r seeing is need a driver plz tell me wht and how......thx

i think the prog you want is kppp but im not sure

should be there in the suse menu if not use yast to install it form your dvd


PS if you enclose your outputs in [code] and [/code] then it makes it much easier to read

From your last post, the significant part in red:

02:04.0 Modem: SILICON Laboratories Intel 537 Winmodem (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Generic])

The modem is designed specifically for use with windows only. You could go to the Silicon website to see if they have Linux drivers or Google winmodem drivers Linux.

Try http://linmodems.org/ to see if the card has support