dial up connection with internal modem

[m.h.shams]

dear friends.

here is a gentoo beginer.

i want to a configure a dial up connection with an internal modem. (zoltrix 56k internal modem)

where can i found my modems drivers ?

how can i sure that my modem was configured correctly ?

how define a dialup connection with gentoo (text terminal or in gnome GUI) ?

thanks all.
best regards
mohammad shamsi

[Hawklad]

First, decide. Do you REALLY need to configure this modem? Simply put, it is more than likely that your modem is a winmodem, meaning that getting it to work under Linux might require quite a bit of effort.

If you do need it to work, it may be possible.

http://linmodems.org/ is a good reference.

You'll need find out exactly what chipset your modem uses first. Just knowing the brand name isn't enough.

Go to http://132.68.73.235/linmodems/first.html to get the scanmodem utility and run it to find out all the information about your particular modem.

Before you actually run the scanmodem script be sure to do this (as root):