Nicolas Since your HDA card has Conexant chips, most likely the modem chip on the HDA card is also Conexnant Start at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-license.php to find the hsfmodem package matching your System. For several Linux distros, there are precompiled drivers matched to specific kernels. These have within the FileName, your KernelVersion: 2.6.24_19_generic They can be found through http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/downloads.php A more precise location may be given a few paragraphs below. If an EXACT Match with your your KernelVersion is not found, one of the "Generic packages with source" near the bottom of the page must be used. Downloaded packages must be moved into the Linux partition (home folder is OK) and unzipped with: unzip hsf*.zip The installation command for a .deb suffic packages is, with root/adm permission: sudo dpkg -i hsf*.deb The cogent expert on hsfmodem software is , "Support (Jonathan)" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, MarvS scanModem maintainer On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Nicolas A. Santos <nicolas.sc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i am sending the modemdata file to you guys, to se if you can help me > with installing this modem on ubuntu 8.10 > > thanks for your help >