hi,

first of all my name is vasilis. second thank you for all the help you have written in this site it is very helpfull and encouraging for newbies like myself. I am now six and a half months a user of the linux operating systems in two distros ( ubuntu and Fedora core 4).As long as i was in England the ethernet connection that i had was automatically detected by both versions of linux.
now that i have finished my Msc and returned in the homeland Greece, we have to compansate with the old dial-up connection. hence this indicates me that i have to use my modem, which is internaly built in my laptop. This was a funny intruduction, i am closing the parenthesis here and i will get straight into the problem that i am facing.
I have nearly 10 months now a laptop HP Pavilion zv5365EA, which has a internal modem of the following type: Agere Systems AC'97. currently as a member of the ubuntu team in greece i am focusing in the use and in the future development of the ubuntu versions. the problem is that when i am installing ubuntu and try to set up the internet connection, ubuntu cannot regognize the modem. therefore i cannot have access to the internet. I have been searching for four days now to obtain a solution from looking different forums in different sites, but no luck. Finally i have reaches this site which is wonderfull , because it has more informations for problem solving that are held in the form of discussion between all of its members. therefore i am kindly asking any of you my friends new or old in linux in order together to guide me and with your help as well to find a solution to my Crusial problem at this stage.

before i have to say which methods i have followed in order to find a solution. i have tried alone to make adjustment internally in ubuntu but o luck and seconly i have been advised the proposed solution of scanModem.gz that i have found in limodems.org. this later step i have done it now and i am going to post it as well to their site. but i am asking anyone of you if you have similare or the same model and have accounted the same problem with a internal build modem like this to help me as it would be a quicker way presumably after 4 days of searching the internet.

thank you beforehand

vasilis

There's a project at sourceforge that's attempting to organize a database of modems that work with a PCTel driver, and there's an entry for an Agere AC'97 modem here:
http://pctelcompdb.sourceforge.net/v....php?id_no=196

If your modem matches this one, you can follow the directions given. What does lspci -v say about your modem?

The PCTel driver can be found here:
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pcte...x/welcome.html

ciotog,

thank you very much my friend, i really appreciate you move to reply to me, i have problems currently with the ubuntu since it needs packages of the gcc and gcc libraries to compile the file that you have suggested. therefore i cannot say if it has worked at the moment or not and i am still trying to download the packages with the 56k dial-up. it is really tiring since it takes a long time and all the time here in greece it is interrupted. anyway i will tell u how it went asap.

thank you

i hope if it anything that i can do for you, please let me know

vasilis vrettas