[newbie] Need help connecting to Net

[Rob and Shelly]

How do I get my modem to connect? It works fine in Win98, but I can't get Linux to use my modem. My modem is am ActionTec 56k pci internal modem. It has documents that say that this modem is verified for Redhat 5.2 and 6.0. This should work with Mandrake 6.5 right? On my KDE desktop, I can also access my Win files, but not my modem? Here is what I have done so far... As root I went to my dev directory. then I did the following command. # ./MAKEDEV ttyS2  (my modem is on COM3) then I did... # ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem/ #chmod 666 /dev/ttyS2 #chmod 666 /dev/modem next I did... # setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0xd401 irq 11 Then I went to set up my account in Kppp. When I query modem, there is no responce. I have even went to my /etc/rc.d/ directory and inserted the following line in my rc.local file as the last line in that file. "set serial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0xd401 irq 11"   Well, I hope this is enough info for someone to help me with this. Thanks, Rob