With the help of Stephen and borrowing from the procedure provided by Andreas(funkea) on the lounge forum about Lucent modems, Iwas able to connect to the net using my winmodem-hsp 56 micromodem. My motherboard is pcchips m748lmrt.

Since I use the knoppix cd i am not able to compile the modem and serial drivers(Read-only file error) hence I had to ask for help in this forum.

This is what I did:
1. downloaded themodem driver and serial driver from Stephen.
2.copy the files to my c:\ pctel directory.
3.start knoppix from cd
4. cd /mnt/hda1/pctel(this can be changed to floppy or another directory)
5. run this script(save it to the pctel directory) used by Andreas.

#! /bin/bash
mknod /dev/ttyS15 c 62 79
chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS15
ln -sf /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem
insmod -f pctel.o
insmod -f ptserial.o

just ignore the licensing warning.

6. open kppp and try the modem
7.if the modem connects then setup an account.
8.browse the web!!