Joe, I receinve another message with a blank ModemData,txt So if there isanother modem also, let me know. But for modem Class 0780: 125d:2898 Communication controller: ESS Technology ES2898 Modem Primary PCI_id 125d:2898 Support type needed or chipset: ESS.com--------->From http://tx.technion.ac.il/~raindel/ use the hotlink for thecurrent version to download ess_2.6-v0.3.tar.gz , which I justedchecked out. But to setup for the necessary compiling, you will need to install packages for:linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic linux-headers-2.6.20-15 build-essential curl debhelper dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.1 gettext git-core gitk html2text intltool-debian kernel-package kernel-wedge libc6-dev libcurl3-gnutls libdigest-sha1-perl liberror-perl libstdc++6-4.1-dev linux-libc-dev po-debconf rcs tcl8.4 tk8.4---Some of which will likely have to be obtained throughhttp://packages.ubuntu.com/if you have an alternate internet connection:$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic linux-kernel-develwill do all. Then the compile of the ess drivers will succeed, But if you want to wait till this evening, Iĺl compile the drivers for you.Unfortunately, the compile aborts on my System, because of an included125d:2898 hardware check, Thus Iĺl have to meddle in the code packagea bit to make it succeed on my System Jeff, How about doing a modification to setup and configure so that:./setup KERNEL_DIR=somethingwould also1) replace the 125d:2898 check with a simple warning2) not run the subsequent installso that a Newbie could receive a precompiled driver and then just runthe install. I´ve now done this by hand a few times. Marv
