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From: "Tony Wasson" <ajwasson@inficad.com>
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Subject: Re: Laptop modem - Dell Inspiron 2650 MD56ORD
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:08:40 -0700
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> Greetings
>
> I have a Inspiron 2650 laptop. I have Red Hat
> 7.3 loaded on it and every thing is working
> fine except for the modem. At the command prompt
> I entered the command " cat /proc/pci ".  It
> informed me that the modem is an Intel 8086:2486.
> Where can I find the driver for this???

http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/search/adv_results.asp?searchtype=a
ge&age=30
This page indicates the Inspiron 2650 has a "Conexant By Actiontec MD56ORD
V92 MDC Modem"

This page explains how to setup the MD56ORD modem:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/redhat72-install-HOWTO.html
If you have an Actiontec MD56ORD V92 MDC Modem, the following procedure is
for you. Conexant makes the chipset that goes into the Actiontec modem (I
figured out that Conexant is being used by looking at
C:\DRIVERS\3F382\DEL2486K.INF). So what Linux actually needs is a Conexant
driver to get the modem to work.

Download the HSF (softmodem) driver from http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlind. The
version you want is the i686 one:
hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L2mbsibeta02060200k2.4.7_10-1rh.i686.rpm
Install the RPM: rpm -ivh
hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L2mbsibeta02060200k2.4.7_10-1rh.i686.rpm
Go to Start->Programs->Internet->Dialup Configuration and create an Account.
It's similar to using Dialup Networking on Windows


I hope this helps --  please post back to list if you get it working and
explain what worked for you....

Tony