I thought I'd pass this along to help other Dell owners.

I recently installed SUSE 7.3 on my Dell 4100 Dual booting with W-ME.
Of course, the first thing I found out is that Dell stuck me with a conexant winmodem.
After reading up on the subject I removed the winmodem and installed a Creative SB external, fired up Linux and presto was on the net.

BUT, going back to ME, I installed the SB windows drivers but ME couldn't see the modem and after rebooting the modem dissappeared.

I ran the Dell modem analyzer program and it said with a glare "you have installed a non-dell modem, remove it and reinstall the Dell modem" or god will punish you.

For the heck of it, I reinstalled the winmodem to see what happens.

I can now acess the net with ME using the internal and the external works fine with Linux.

So, when dell tells you you can't have two modems, don't believe them.

Merlin (the newbie)