Is this modem linux compatible??

[Milan]

Creative Labs Modem Blaster 56 Kbps V.90 Internal ISA Modem
Model: DI5665
Modem Type
Desktop: internal

Modem Speed
56 Kbps ITU V.90

Winmodem (Controllerless)
Yes

Port Connection/Interface Slot Type
ISA

Speakerphone
Yes

Phone Cable Included
Yes

USB/Serial Cable Included
NA

Included Software
Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft NetMeeting, Creative Video Web phone, Bitware AOL

System Requirements
Intel® Pentium® processor 100MHz or faster; 16MB of RAM; Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0; available ISA slot; 25MB of hard disk space

will this modem work with mandrake 8.1? i checked mandrakes website but wasnt sure,
im not sure if its a winmodem.
Thanx.
M

[jdctx]

I'd say it is a winmodem. I've have heard before of flakey software that will make a winmodem work but I don't recall what it was. If you don't know already winmodems are software driven and use your cpu to do some of its work. I would consider getting a hardware modem as in one with a controller. Sometimes its hard finding out whether a modem is a win or hardware. One thing that might alert you that it is a win modem is if the min requirements state
pentium +
and win95 98,nt 2000 ect

non win modem have lesser requirements like
486 and dos 5.0

[bdg1983]

Usually isa modems are not winmodems, but in your case, it looks like yours in fact is a winmodem.

You may be able to find drivers that will work with your modem. Try www.winmodems.org (http://www.winmodems.org) and I think www.linmodems.org (http://www.linmodems.org)

One of my works pc's came with a GVC internal winmodem which I never bothered to try to get to work since everything is ethernet. Since I see so many questions here on modems/winmodems, I thought I would give it a try to see how hard it was to get working.

I found it had a lucent chipset so I downloaded the appropriate drivers, compiled them, ran the install and autoload and then used KPPP to configure the modem. It works and took me around 5 minutes from start to finish.