Thanks to Will Ellis-Adams for the MODEM INSTALLATION GUIDE
Here is his guide on his website.If this doesn't work, here is the mirror.
If you just want to get the file and start messing around, go here.
SOUND UPDATE
The 2.2.17 kernel now supports our Crystal CS4281 sound chip! Download the kernel here. (It's 17.5 megs!)
Follow the link on the left that says Kernel Upgrade or click here.
For people who don't want to upgrade and still want sound, thanks to Rodney Lessard for the following information:
The Sound card is a Crystal CS4281 chip set. You can go here to download the latest OSS (Open System) sound card driver. Click on the download portion on the left side, then fill in your information, and add "Crystal CS4281" in the driver field. Submit it and it should give you a link to download the tar file.
Rodney also informed me, sadly enough, that the modem is a WINMODEM, but worst of all, it uses a Conexant PCI winmodem chipset. Which means in english: it is totally unsupported, even through lucent's drivers. My dream is to be able to write drivers in linux, so you can bet my first task will be writing a driver for this modem! That will be well in the future, however :)
Basically what you want to do is tar -xvf osslinux3931-2215-UP.tar, then type ./oss-install, it will do it's installation, find your sound card, add to the kernel, then bring you to the main installation screen. Unfortunately, you only get 3 hours of time to use the driver, then it shuts off and you have to turn it back on. To turn it on in the first place, you must type (where ever you installed the file) ./soundon, and what I did was copy it to /sbin so all I had to do was type soundon to get my sound working. Then I added a line in rc.local to load it at boot time.
MODEM UPDATE
Okay, I have finally had some time to go over all this.
Specs for the modem: Conexant SoftK56 Data,Fax PCI Modem
Under windows 98, if you go to the ControlPanel->Modems->Diagnostics tab-> More Info... you should see this.
The important thing to notice is the ATI3 - yours should be the exact same as mine. This should be all the information you should need to track down any tidbits about our modem driver for linux.As of 11/1/2000 I still have not figured out a way to get this modem driver to work.
