In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<Xns96EAA19E5BD01416c616e@211.29.133.50>, Alan Brown wrote:

>I have just set up Fedora and when I try to setup an Internet connection I
>get "modem not detected message".

Sounds like some windoze wannabe tool

>I have tried a Rockwell Conexant PCI and an Aztech external modem - both
>work on other computers.

'Rockwell Conexant' is a chipset manufacturer - and there are dozens of
chipsets and thousands of modems using those chip sets. The
Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO will help identify the modem/chipset. Some
work as is - some need drivers, others are brain dead. As far as the
Aztech, if it's an RS-232 (as opposed to USB), it should work with no
problems. See that your kernel is finding the serial ports at boot time
(look at the boot messages in /var/log/messages).

>Is there any equivalent to Windows "Add New Hardware" Wizard??

I stopped using windoze in 1992, but Red Hat includes something called
"kudzu" which attempts to handle this. It may or may not work. A lot
depends on your BIOS being correct.

>If not what do I do to get the system to recognise a modem?

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 338050 Jun 17 09:53 Modem-HOWTO

Old guy