dear friends ,

i moved to suse 9.1 and when i installed it , it sees my modem Motorolla SM56 and it doesn't connect so i used the driver which is on the motorolla website , but it also didn't connect , so what can i do ... and i wanna know how to make it load another version of kernel when it loads if that will make it conect , and i have other distributions ( mandrake 10.1 official (3 CD) , Fedora core 2 (4 CD) and suse 9.1 ( 1 CD ) + live CD ) can i use of of those to install the appropriate kernel version if it is required ...... i'm new to linux and i need help in full details

thx