Hi i am new too linux and i am having problem getting my modem to work.

i am using suse 7.2 personal, i know its old this is why i wud like to connect to the internet to update it to 9.2.

but i cannot get the modem to dial, in the modem dialing software tells me that the modem is not valid (/dev/modem0) i have try messing with the settings in the control center and have had no joy, so i was wondering can anyone help me.

i am using a gateway computer with a pentium 3 700mhz processor, 640Mb ram, 16mb voodoo 3 graphics card, netgear network card, and a gateway modem


any advice wud be usfull

thanks al