PCMCIA Modem Driver?

[Daniel Faulkner <daniel.faulkner@cwcom.net>]

Hi,
Recently a friend asked me 2 install linux on his laptop and
most of it works well.
(touchpad mouse was suprisingly easy)
Sound, looks hard but from the sound of things has been done
before and something I haven't had much of a go at yet.
PCMCIA bus/controller thing I think is OK
But the actual cards are the problem. There is a DVD card (not
looked for a driver yet)
And a modem (which is causing the problems)

The modem is:
PCMCIA modem, 3COM Megahertz 56k Global WinModem PC Card Model
3CCM656
Laptop is:
Gateway Solo 2500
OS is:
Debian Linux, Potato (Disks say 2.2.r3 on front) Kernal 2.2.18
(I think if I remember right)

So far what I've seen makes it look like a new modem is needed
for certain but as linux is continualy updated I would like to
know if there is a way to get the modem to work in linux.

Thanks,
Daniel