[cooker-amd64] Cannot configure modem

[Michael White]

I've been trying to use my new computer for a while now, and I'm getting real 
tired of it.  Specifically, I can't get a modem to work on this thing.  It's 
a Asus SK8N.  I just installed a US Robotics V.92 PCI modem.  On the back of 
the box, it says there's Linux support.  Guess that -doesn't- mean Mandrake.

HardDrake lumps it under "Unknown/Others".  When I attempt to configure my 
internet access using the Mandrake Control Center, it says it can't 
communicate over the modem.  And, on top of that, the Mandrake Control Center 
does not remember my dial-up information (connection name, password, etc...), 
so I have to type it in each time.

Minicom cannot communicate with this modem.  Mandrake has created a "modem" 
soft link to ttyS0, which I'm assuming is correct.  If not, what is it?   How 
can I tell?

Should I be writing up bug reports for this?

I didn't have near this many problems setting up my HP laptop...
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Michael White         "To protect people from the effects of folly is to
                       fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891