Any idead on how to make knoppix understand it?

Have a look here to see if you actually have a usable modem:

http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html

Perhaps you could post the output of lspci -v (if it says: "-bash: lspci: command not found" or something similar try typing /sbin/lspci -v ) here to give us a clue as to the make/model of modem you have.

Cheers
Amos

Here is the output of lspci -v (not all of it just the part concerning the modem features):

Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 08)
Subsystem: GVC Corporation Dell Silver
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at fe1f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at ecf8 [size=8]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Xp in the device manager told me that i had a dell data fax modem but the lspci output of knoppix tells me tha it is a Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem. Why the two output dont agree? my guess is that linux output is the most right

Well then, do we have a driver for my Conexant hcf modem?

Thanks you and a happy new year to everyone!

To double check what chipset its using use you could try scanmodem from linmodems.org

http://www.linmodems.org/

There's links there to Connexant aswell..

my modem is Conexant hcf. i downloaded the driver from linuxant.com

When i try to connect to the net with my conexant hcf i get exit code 16 immediately after it connects to the net. This happens when i have region set to USA

When i have region set to GREECE which is the country i live all i get is BUSY when i try to connect to the net.


please help me out!

Thanks!

Do you mean pppd died exit 16? are you using kppp - post the log.

Ij just says modem hang up! But why my modem is hunging up immediately after it connects to the net? That doesnt make sense does it?

I have Intel HAM v.92 modem,
when i start kppp for the first time,(after boot) it crash the connection,and in the log says that DEBUG option is off,and it ask me do i want to turn it on,i say yes and everything is fine next time.
May be this is no help for your problem but...
Btw.Dose anybody knows how to turn DEBUG option on (forever)?