Nataraj, scanModem for some reason or another, might be that it needed to load some driver? to test the other part( ) to see if it was supported through slmodemd did not show the the entire picture and thus omitted something like the following information: Predictive diagnostics for card in bus fake: Modem chipset detected on NAME="FakeName" CLASS=FakeClass PCIDEV=14f1:2f50 SUBSYS=14f1:205f IRQ=fake IDENT=hsfmodem Driver=hsfmodem-drivers For candidate modem in: fake FakeClass FakeName Primary device ID: 14f1:2f50 Support type needed or chipset: hsfmodem For owners of a Dell PCs with Conexant HSF modems, a driver source package with full speed enabled is available, but requires driver compiling. Read DOCs/Conexant.txt Support for the 14f1:2f50 and 14f1:2215 HSF modems is projected early in 2007 from Linuxant. Start at http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full for eventually download of a hsfmodem-7.68.00.12full_k.???.zip package with ??? the package type (deb, rpm, tar etc) These packages have compiled drivers but will also compile a driver, if there is a mismatch between the resident kernel and provided driver. The generic hsfmodem-7.68.00.12full.tar.gz package only provides compiling support 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: \ 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: dpkg -i hsf*.deb while for .rpm suffix it is, with: rpm -i hsf*.rpm Read DOCs/Conexant.txt Read the following information: http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/install.php Visit the page: http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/downloads-license.php and agree to the terms, then safely download the generic package since there might not be a prebuilt package for your kernel 2.6.32-21-generic? Hope this helps in some way. Regards, Antonio \ On 8/24/10, nataraj m <mnatarajmca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi, > iam from india and using ubanthu 10.iam using pci softring dial up > modem .iam unable to up my modem.it says modem is disabled.how to > solve it? >