I've read all the discussion forums on Lucent WinModems and it still does not help me.
I'm hoping someone has had the same experience I have had and can point me to a working RPM driver for my modem.

Here's the details of my modem

I am running Mandrake 9.1, right out of the box, no modifications
Kernel 2.4.21-0.13MDK
Lucent WinModem
Vendor ID: 11
Device ID: 044

I installed an RPM available online.

I had problems in Kppp in detecting the device, and Mandrake Control Center said that "winmodems were not supported" and gives no help. After installing a 2.4.21 kernel-specific Lucent Winmodem driver available online, I set the device in Network options to "/dev/ttyLT0" but it still does not dial or register a modem.

What am I doing wrong? I'd appreciate a prompt response, as I am pretty desperate to get the internet aspect of Linux up and running

I've also got a Lucent winmodem and am running Mandrake 9.1. Though at the time I was downloading it, there was no RPM for Mandrake 9.1 available. the 8.x source tar ball though worked perfectly if you follow the instructions in the README file. Have you tried compiling the source, or have you just used the RPMs thus far?

I have a lucent winmodem also. down loaded the drivers for it then found out about flashing the bios.Down loaded that onto a floopy ,came with alot of caution.ended up with a external serial modem.

I have had some moderate success, but it came at a cost!

I am a newbie to the world of Linux, so this might sound a little muddled.

Firstly, even though I eventually got my modem working after a fashion, KPPP still does not work with it!

I am running RedHat 8 personal edition.

The first thing I had to install were the Kernal header files. These are RPM packages available form the install CD's. I imagine that they are on your distribution as well.

After unzipping the lucent package (obtained from a web site recommended by www.winmodems.org) I ran a script that attempted to compile the source code. This failed but recommended reading a file name 'compile_failure'.

This recommends running a script from the utils directory (one of the extracted directories from the modem download file). I think it was called ksh.sh but don't quote me.

Don't know exactly what this file did, but it appeared to redo my kernal headers, recompile various file for about 5 minutes. At the end of its run, this script runs wvdial (a text based modem dialer) and lo and behold, the modem made dialing noises!

I recommend starting the modem connection though using the network conections utility found under the Gnome desktop (It works with KDE as well).

The cost I'm referring to is that my sound card now doesn't work any more!

Also, If I try a later kernel now, neither work!

Hopefully there is someone out there who know more about incompatible modues and how to fix them!

Hopefully they can also tell me what this script did, and how I should have approached this issue in a more streamlined fashion!

Richard