hi,

i have got an internal modem, and it works fine on my comp [got drivers etc for linux].

now i want to install it in a lab comp, and that comp is really old [had to take apart three junk PCs to assemble one working one, and still not sure if everything is fine].

neways, there are two free pci ports and i have tried the modem on both. the problem is: i am expecting linux to detect the device atleast, and show it in lspci/cat /proc/pci etc. but it isnt. i remember harddrake showing a red entry for the modem [as winmodem] when i had not installed the drivers on my PC, but here it just says "cant load serial module" when starting up and doesnt show any modem.

i tried changing bios settings to do the pnp stuff itself with autmatic setting. but despite everything lspci is not showing the modem :((

its eating up a lot of my time, and got to get this working before i cud proceed. please let me know if u have ideas on how to deal with this.

tia,