I'm in winmodem hell (compaq 2100)
 

I am trying to connect my laptop (Compaq Presario 2100) to the internet. It has an internal winmodem (Conexant 56k ACLink, device ID 10b9:5457). I successfully installed the Smartlink slmodem driver. However, when I try to connect with KPPP, it hangs at "setting speaker volume". It hangs the entire machine, even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work. When I try to query modem with KPPP, it queries the modem successfully. I have tried both kernels 2.6.0 and 2.6.9.

Anyone know what is causing it to hang at "setting speaker volume" and how to resolve this?

i've never had that problem with the linuxant driver. I've also used an the conexant driver.