I been searching thorough linmodems database:
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/pci_list.html

And I was looking to the 3com/US robotics, which can be the ones I might get faster, but they dont have Plug and Play, the ones that have the status OK to work on linux, tagged as real modem. I dont know how hard it might be to install it if it is not plug and play, there are some models, which I might be able to get on my area. Does having a OK status, indicates me that it will work on mandrake 9 or redhat 8? Also, does the status linmodem, which is in yellos color, is reliable to be used?

Also I might be able to get an Intel modem with chipset ambient> MD5628D-L-B or MD5628D-L-C and in Intel's support driver page page:

http://developer.intel.com/design/mo...vers_linux.htm

It shows that those modems work with those drivers on Linux with kernel 2.4.X, does that tell me that IT WILL WORK on Mandrake 9 or Redhat 8?

If it works on mandrake 9, it would be great, because Im still not able to solve my soudcard issue in Redhat 8, which is posted on this forum(hardware).

Thanks in advance, help would be extremly appreciated

If its hardware modem it'll work. I personally use nad suggest 3com US robotics faxmodem, works out of the box on my Slack, which means it will work out of the box almost certainly on every other distro.
HTH
=-NSKL

The Linmodems list, as far as I am aware, only details if people have managed to get them to work or not, it doesn't detail how hard they might be to get working, only whether it is possible or not. So, if the modem you're looking at has been labelled as working (OK or LM, I think) you should be OK with most distros. I would still advise, however, that if you're looking to buy a new modem, you get an external, serial modem - they can't fail to be hardware modems (I believe) and are really easy to work with.

£0.02

I see, is because what I might get easier is an intel or us robotics modem, so an external modem is more sure to not fail?

I could be wrong, in which case would someone please correct me, but I am almost certain that the speed at which the serial port works is incapable of taking information directly from the telephone lines with no decoding. The way Winmodems work is that they pass on most of the work to the software rather than using 'expensive' hardware components. Serial modems, because they cannot do this due to the speed of the serial port, are do all the hard work in hardware. You can get PCI and ISA (internal) hardware modems, but they wouldn't appear on the Linmodems list since that list is compiled about software modems.

Sure an external, serial modem might not look as tidy as having a cable go into the back of your machine, but they're a damn site easier to work with! And you can always hide it anyway

HTH

I attached a Nortel Networks FWA IRDA modem, which is for a service for better speeds on telephone line, and mandrake detected it, it said the name, type and serial number, and not windows xp, nor OS X was able to detect that modem.

I use Actiontec 56K internal PCI call waiting modem. SuSE 8.0 picked it up as soon a I hit configure modem. I've had no problems with it.

Take Care!