I recently bought a US Robotics 56k v.92 external modem. I hooked it to my COM1 port and it works fine in Win2k. In Slackware 8 however I can't seem to get it to work. My internal modem still works ...
You gotta keep 'em separated ...
the microsoft driver for the agere softmodem is very flaky. If this is an OEM box, and I would assume that it is (HP or Compaq?), use the driver from the OEMs website, it's actually newer anyway.