I have a Conceptronic internal 56K modem and I would like to know if it's possible to get it working with Linux. I heard that only serial modems work for Linux. Is this true? I would prefer to use an internal, or USB because I imagine anything working through the serial port will be a whole lot slower.
Thanks for any help,
Ed

that's not true at all. http://linmodems.org

This is not true. There are several serial modems that don't work, and several internal ones (hardware and software) that do.

Try googling for the terms “linmodem” and “winmodem”

I have an internal PCI modem and it works fine. However, it is a real modem and not a WinModem. WinModems generally are what is called "controller-less" modems. In the WinModem, some of the hardware functionality is offloaded to software. By and large, most of the modems sold are WinModems because the WinModems are a lot cheaper. You could get a WinModem to work with Linux if you had a driver or kernel module written for it. Most of the WinModem manufacturers have not done this. There are some projects out there to do this. I was using a Conexant HCF modem for a while on Linux but then the writer of the driver/kernel module wanted to start charging for the software--which is his right to do, but I didn't want to pay. I decided to just shell out the money and by a real modem so I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.

Yes, that's the one that I was trying to get working. I can take it back, unfortunately the only other model available is a conceptronics USB modem... I presume there are no drivers available for that one either