Laptops :: Toshiba Equium dial up woes, no modem?

HI all

have tried Ubuntu on this laptop and despite pretty much loving it, had to bin it off as the modem support for winmodems is pretty much non existent out of the box, which in my opinion, sucks.

Anyway, I read a few thread and heard that DSL is the way to go as agere/lucent winmodems are supported, "cool" I thought. Same as, no dial up, no nothing on this laptops winmodem.

I followed this and it didn'y work:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....l=agere

I've read through these threads and I generally get the impression that DSL should be finding my modem no problem, but it ain't
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....6c2a132

SO, what now - suggestions please.

Linux is of no use to me if I cannot get online with it.

Toshiba Equium laptop, agere (win)modem,

original here.