Ok, I've now tried to open the archives on the Windows part. and I can get the modem drivers to unzip, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do in Linux to get the drivers to install. The nVidia drivers must be corrupt, becuase they won't open at all, so I'm gong to try to redownload that if I can ever get my modem to work in Linux. In the zip there is dbgscr_mod.o, fbks_mod.o, fsks_mod.o, hsf_install.pl, inf2bin, ins_all, lin_hsf.inf, mod_basic2.o, mod_dev_mgr.o, mod_octopus.o, mod_session_ctrl.o. I don't know what i'm supposed to do with these. I went into Linux and tried to run hsf_install.pl(has a camel icon in Nautilis, i think it's a Perl written executable), lin_hsf.inf, and ins_all. Nothing happened and I don't know what to do now. PLEASE help me.

The Wykyd1

Are there no files known as README or INSTALL in the modem driver archive, and no installation instructions on the site where you downloaded them? That would be unusual.

Looking at the file names, I can see several kernel modules (the *.o files), a Perl installer script (as you noted), and something (inf2bin) that looks like some kind of a converter from Windows format *.inf files to an executable that would run under Linux (bin).

Now I could guess at how these files are meant to interact, and ask some basic questions like, "How did you try to run hsf_install.pl? If not in a terminal as root, it probably wouldn't work," or "Do you have Perl installed?", but on the whole, it would be better if you found the installation instructions and used those instead.