> You could just say forget it though because Winmodems are
> crap anyway:- "Thou who buy cheap crap gets problems"

not everything what is cheap is crap. but everything designed exclusively
for windoze is crap even if not cheap.
 
> IBM will only be supporting WinModems so they can stuff
> them in their rather bad laptops.  No other reason - this
> isn't some magic community gift.
> 
> I'll stick with my Hayes Accura V90 external and Hayes
> PCMCIA Global 56k thanks (despite having a WinModem in my
> lappy).
> **1 - Word censored to stop search engines picking it
>       up even more... ;)
:)