Laptop hardware not detected my Debian

[Jorge Castro]

Hi, I have recently installed Debian/Linux version 3.0.23 on my Dell Inspirion 5150 laptop (along with WindowsXP). So far I have had limited success: the kernel and utilities run, but I believe a lot of hardware was not detected: can't use modem, graphics card, usb floppy, and just about everything on the PCI bus. (the CDROM (and HD) drive was detected and seems fine) I am not sure what is the best next step from here to solve this problem? Meanwhile, I am trying to sort out the modem (I need it to download updates). This modem appears to be interfacing with the PCI bus, so I did a PCI scan by running "lspci -vvx" and this is the info I got back (only showing for the modem): 00:1f:6  Modem: Intel Corp. : Unknown device 24c6 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])               Subsystem : Broadcom Corporation: Unknow device 4d64               Control: I/O+                 Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF                 Latency : 0                 Interrupt : pin 8 routed to IRQ11                 Region 0: I/O ports at b400                 Region 1: I/O ports at bo80                 Capabilities: [50] Power management version 2                         Flag: PMECLK                            Status : D0 PME- Enable 00: 86 80 ................ 10: 01 b4 ............ 20: 00 00 ...... 30: 00 00 ............. I perhaps should add that all the other devices on the PCI bus are also "Unknown devices" including my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200Go graphics card, firewire, etc. What are my options at this point to get the modem going? Thanks a lot in advance Jorge Castro