I have downloaded the linux drivers for my modem from the makers (Smart Link) and installed them, but linux still says that I have no modem. What can I do to fix this problem? Have I done something wrong? Somebody please help me!

Are you on dialup? Some modems (winmodems) aren't supported by linux I had this problem before I had a cable connection. I'm still new to linux so i wont act like i know a lot but ! I think to fix mine I had to download some program that supports various winmodems on linux. Try googling for winmodem support on linux or something like that.

Good luck ! I know how irritating it can be.

Please post your lspci and lsmod results and we'll see if Linux reall didn't see it. You need to get online. Help is on the way

OK. I did what you said and this is what came up.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01e0 (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unkown device 01eb (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unkown device 01eb (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unkown device 01eb (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unkown device 01eb (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unkown device 01eb (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce 2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce 2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce 2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unkown device 006c (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
01:04.0 Modem: ALi Corporation SmartPCI561 56K Modem
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)

lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
parport_pc 18756 1 (autoclean)
lp 8868 0 (autoclean)
parport 36480 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12948 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_REJECT 3896 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2389 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14648 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
sg 35980 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17984 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 11984 0
scsi_mod 106200 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35196 0
cdrom 33472 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 3484 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 1 (autoclean)
vfat 12844 1 (autoclean)
fat 38328 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
keybdev 2880 0 (unused)
mousedev 5428 1
hid 21700 0 (unused)
input 5792 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usbcore 77696 1 [hid]

Hi
I got my smartlink modem working after a long time messing around once I realised that the driver identifies the modem com port as ttySl0 (or something like that ;-). If you create a symbolic link from the com port as listed in the driver info to /dev/modem, it should work.

ln -s tty(whatever the port is called) /dev/modem

Hope it works

ThEuS

This seems to be the link to your driver and the readme. Did you install as rpm? Or did you do it from source, like the first part of the readme says to do. Is your modem amr, cnr, pci, or usb?

I installed my drivers from source, it is a PCI, and it already has the symbolic link and ttySL0.