Please help me with this.

I'am a newbie to the wonderful world of LINUX. Got my hands on a set of Red Hat 8 CDs and installed it.

Everythings working fine except my modem..its an internal modem ....i asked a LINUX guru at my place of wrk he said tht internal modems dont wrok with LINUX and i hv to make some kernel (gimme a brk i'm just a newbie)...i some how went to the manufacturers website and downloaded this rpm..and followed the instructions to install it:

http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral...ERS.html#linux

still my modem does not work

poor me ..can anybody help me with this ..btw my modem is a dlink modem with a motorola sm56 controller..if tht helps

thks in advance

SAM

p.s. I dunno if this is the correct forum to post stuff like this..pls excuse my ignorance if its not