Be my luck your pcmcia is too new and isn't supported in Linux.

I've older laptop, IBM Thinkpad 600X

pcmcia on mine works great in Linux with a 3com 10/100 pcmcia network card. Operates superbly on my LAN.

I've DSL internet so haven't got around to trying I've an older 28.8 pcmcia modem card I don't even know if it works or not but likely it does.

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Alan.

Ok here's the deal.
I finally got my modem "initialized" but still its not in working stat.
After spending some good time searching on the internet here is what i did.

1-Installed slmodemd with alsa support. (limodems.technio.ac.it)
2-Loaded the snd-via82xx-modem at runtime.
3-used 'slmodemd -alsa -c PAKISTAN hw:1'

this gave an output indicating that there is one /dev/ttySL0 created

4-Used kppp with this /dev/ttySL0 and guess what kppp responded well, it intialized modem but the whole thing stops there.And i am unable to get a connection.
kppp stays there forever with msg 'intializing modem'
I tried minicom , but stays at the "Dialing window" forever

I will install wvdial now ( i wish it was available in slackware)
and see if it works with it.

lspci gives : (Truncated)
------- lspci --------
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Unknown device 8039
00:0c.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments Unknown device 803b
00:0c.3 Class 0805: Texas Instruments Unknown device 803c
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8185 (rev 20)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 3344 (rev 01)



Right now i feel kinda confident that somehow i will make this modem work.But
do gimme an tip or idea related to it if possible.
Thankx in advance

I have been using Gnome Partition Editor for this with much success lately. Very nice livecd and I have lost no data.

If your modem is an alsa device, it won't show on the lspci output. you can see it by using "aplay -l" command. there's also quite a bit of information about slmodemd on Gentoo wiki : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_slmodem#Using_ALSA_drivers . Hope it will help

Ok
i got wvdial but i donno whats the problem that it is not working.
I have used that before but now ...
I am gettingg this msg that Section [Dialer Defaults] is not present in wvdial.conf
although i edited that file myself
The modem is intialized. but no valid phone no detected ( but i did enter this number 131-20001 in the /etc/wvdial.conf myself)

i donno whats wrong

Or use TotalCommander ex2fs plugin ...