It's a WinModem. You're over the falls allready so it doesn't really matter that you don't have a paddle. That said, most of the winmodems supported have lucent chipsets. IBM kicked lucent around and forced them to make them work under linux. But just because it works, doesn't mean it will work better than under windows. It's still a POS software modem, and the Lucent & Rockwell based modems are the worst of the lot. (Based on my ISP tech support experience.) As far as I know 3com winmodems are still a no go under linux. I could be wrong as I don't care about software modems, there is no reason for them to exisit other than to annoy me, I have 3 nice 3com/USR modems, and none of them are in my machine due to a lack of ISA slots. Go out, buy a real modem. Not some USB hack, not some stupid winmodem. I've been out of ISP support for about a year now and I still don't want to hear about winmodems or the problems that come with them. No, I don't have an opinion about these things. Not at all. | Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 | | http://www.ringworld.org | Work: 763.428.9119 | | http://www.itouthouse.com | PCS: 612.306.6055 | | His power apparently lies in his ability to | | choose incompetent enemies. | | - Crow T. Robot, MST3K, "Prince of Space" |