Installing a winmodem on laptop ..........Help please!

[Harry]

I have a Sony Vaio and wish to install a win(?)modem that is detected in Kinfo as an Ali corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller (Prog - if 00 [Generic])

In Networking the options for setting up a modem are greyed out and I cannot set or autodetect a modem.

What do I need to do to get the modem going:

Details:
Sony PCG-FR820 laptop
ubuntu 2.6.12-10-386 3.4.5

Scanmodem gives me this as the modem:
[The controller: 10b9:5451 ALI 5451
is capable of supporting soft modem chips from AT LEAST manufacturers:
AgereSystems
Smartlink
cat: invalid option -- a
Try `cat --help' for more information.
A PCMCIA modem is detected.]

[mchuskie]

Re: Installing a winmodem on laptop ..........Help please!

Have you tried going into Administrator mode to set things up? The options are greyed out unless you do.

[Harry]

Re: Installing a winmodem on laptop ..........Help please!

Hi, thanks JamesM thanks I did not even think about that option (duh!!) will give it a go when I get home later.

[Harry]

Re: Installing a winmodem on laptop ..........Help please!

Still no go