I think the presario's had 'winmodems' which have problems on linux, 
though I thought someone was working on getting them working under 
linux.

You can pick up a pcmcia modem card that works for linux pretty cheap and 
if you drop 80 bucks or so you can get a combo ethernet/modem that works 
under linux.

-Derek

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Joseph Gledhill wrote:

> I was recently gifted a Compaq Presario 1810 laptop.  I have purged it 
> of the viruslike OS and installed Linux Mandrake 8.1 and all runs great 
> except for the stupid modem.  I tried using lspci and less /proc/pci to 
> find some info on the device but it does not appear several other 
> devices appear and I can account for all of them but no modem.  Is it 
> possible that this modem is so wiggle-jacked that the kernel doesn't 
> even find it as a pci device?  (kernel 2.4.17)
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Joseph
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