Anyone ever installed an "Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice Modem"? I haven't found too much out there. lspci shows it existing but i've never really installed a modem before and could use a push in the write direction.

Is it internal or external? External is much easier to configure. What happens when you try to dial?

It's internal PCI.

I don't think I have any drivers loaded for it, where abouts can I get the driver and maybe a howto.

There's a modem howto on www.tlpd.org. I've never configured an internal modem so I don't know if I can help you with specifics. Try the howto and I may be able to help you with some of the problems with it.

I don't think that link works...

Make sure to omit the last "." because I didn't explicitly tell it which part is the url so it assumed the "." was part of it.

EDIT: oops it was actually www.tldp.org. I always mix up the p and d.

I have the same modem as you. The "Rockwell" chipset is the same as the Connexant chipset and you can find the drivers at the Linuxant website --> here: http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/...c3dcfddc79f134
Use the left panel there to navigate and you gotta read everything - too much to explain how to do it all here. Just make sure that you installed and ran the "modemlist.sh" file that you can get - that will tell you exactly what chipset and vendor id your modem is...

Only bummer is that since I installed the i386 kernel headers I can't use the "HCF" driver but only the "HSF" one... so I can't use the FAX feature of my modem which is a real b*tch!

Guess I won't be using Linux for too many things aside from browsing the web. Sadly, but out of necessity, I rely on MS Office Photoshop, Illustrator and my fax/modem for work (not for ppp use - I have broadband).

I thought I could substitute some programs in linux ... but no fax = no work done = no linux for SOHO = back to Windows for me!