Dear folks,

I have Debian working in general terms but need to get internet access. I posted in the forum a while back to get info about dialers and have installed the Kpp package. However, when I try to configure the dialler it does not detect a modem. The modem is circa 1998, in a pci slot and was used until recently in another operating system (bit like the house of commons this, where they refer to the house of lords as 'another place')

Any thoughts on what I could do? I'm running kernel 2.6 k7 (its an amd processor)and Debian 3.1 sarge

I've tried taking the modem card out an putting it into a different pci slot but no difference

Internal PCI modems are always a pain, certainly going back that far. Try checking out http://www.linmodems.org for chipsets that have Linux drivers available, which also gives an overview as to the technologies in PCI modems and why they're so problematical. Typing "lspci" will show you extra info on you PCI modem including the chipset it's running, which might help.

Failing that, the usual recommendation is to purchase an external serial modem which aren't that expensive, and will work 99% of the time straight out of the box with no fiddly drivers.

Thank you for this. Can I use a USB modem as my ABIT motherboard doesn't have a serial port.

Shame as I've got an old external modem but its a a serial connector...