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[MDM Productions]

Hello People,
You may remember that I am seriously brand new to the cult of the 
penguin, and have been pottering with a load of tat to get a Linux box 
to work without expenditure of many dollars (directive from She Who Must 
Be). Had Puppy Retro 3.01 running happily from a USB stick with XP in 
residence in the donor box and a DSE  1154 modem on Comm3 that dialed in 
and out, and the modem has drivers on the disk for Linii of common 
flavours up to kernel 2.4.18.  Puppy Retro is 2.4.14 . You can follow 
the logic: Use the DSE modem which seems to be compatible with a Puppy 
that advertises compatibility with the chipset in the modem, and works 
over the top of XP, for a cheap thrill. So I installed Puppy on the hard 
drive. And of course it goes looking for a serial modem and draws a 
blank. I have explored the drivers and found the  .tgz and signature 
files that apply to generic 2.4.18 distro's, Red Hat, SuSe, and 
Mandrake. My question is: What do I do next? Can't really go for the 
shop-bought serial modem, and besides, what I have seems so close to 
what I need for toe-dipping. I have copied the manual page describing 
the respective drivers but have not appended it to this letter as I am 
unsure of the protocol for attachments to already wordy mail. 
Suggestions as always are welcome.
Thanks,
John.