Lucent?
Visit [link|http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html|Linux Winmodems] and see if they have support for your Lucent chipset. A web page with a picture of Arnold J. Rimmer on it can't be all bad, now can it? :)
There is also the [link|http://linmodems.org/|Linmodems] web site to try out.
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