OK, forget that I mentioned cost or M$. Just consider that sifting through hundreds of modems on the PCI-modem market in the effort to find the rare bird that Linux/SuSE 8.0 will communicate with is not exactly a marketing plus. So far only ONE modem has been recommended. It is an External modem. It is $56. I just brought home a $19.99 modem that is useless under Linux. One of the marketing plusses of Linux is that it saves money versus M$ -- if we merely move that money from M$ to hardware manufacturers for costly hardware (my parallel port flatbed scanner is also useless under Linux) then we begin to quickly lose another advantage. Surely it is obvious that if Linux/SuSE is hardware-challenged versus M$ then we must have good lists of that which will work. I have wasted dozens of valuable hours of my time not learning Linux, or SuSE, or promoting them, nor using them for the intended purpose but in trying to find a functioning modem! Just stumbled upon: http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/pci_list.html This is an excerpt of the Linux/Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base at http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html FCC ID or Reg # CS Model PNP Jumpers Interface Thanks to: LM BNXUSA-42035-M5-T Modem Blaster DI15630-5, DI5631, DI5633, Conexant SmartHCF chipset [PCI\VEN_14F1&DEV_1057&SUBSYS_1057148D] [PCI\VEN_14F1&DEV_1059&SUBSYS_1059148D_REV08]: V.92 - No PCI Terry Brown, Maxime Bouffard WM GX5USA-33051-M5-E Creative ModemBlaster DI5630(-3), Rockwell RLVDL56DPF/SP chipset Yes No PCI Tom Hodges WM GX5USA-27625-PT-E Creative ModemBlaster DI5630(-4), Conexant (Rockwell) MonoPak HCF chipset (PCI\VEN_14F1&DEV_1035&SUBSYS_1035148D) Yes No PCI Chris Bagwell WM GX5USA-27261-PT-E Creative ModemBlaster DI3635-1; DI5655; DI5657, Creative DS1820/DS1821 (ESS ES56T-PI) chipset (PCI\VEN_125D&DEV_2898&SUBSYS_1030148D) Yes No PCI Greg Moody WM GX5USA-33278-M5-E Creative ModemBlaster DI5635; DI3635, Rockwell HCF chipset (PCI\VEN_148D&DEV_1003&SUBSYS_1003148D&REV_01) Yes No PCI Then on to: http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/hcf/downloads-suse-x86.html to attempt to discover what "exact kernel version" sits under SuSE 8.0 on my PC at the moment. Someone tell me how many generic users (the ones that are necessary to the long-term well-being of the widespread acceptance of Linux) will even consider going through all of this merely for a modem? Sigh ... doc