hi, i was trying to configure my modem on my laptop (dell inspiron 8200) but was not able to determine what exactly to do. i don;t know for sure whether my modem is a winmodem or not. the "lspci" shows that the chipset is intel 8086:2486(probably) at irq:11 and i/o 0xd400 & 0xdc00. the manufacturer of the modem id "Actiontec". do i need to find an appropriate driver for that or it's bundled with the kernel itself??? Alok Khemka Graduate Student Computer Science Dept. University of Missouri - kansas city mail: khemkaalok_@hotmail.com khemkaalok@rediffmail.com abk4g6@umkc.edu _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com