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FWIW, Linux has very poor support, if at all, for softmodems. I think the apple modem is one. But if not and it shows up fine in the devices, then what the other person said!
There used to be quite a few softmodems that could be made to work in Linux. The problem is that most of the drivers have been unmaintained for 15-20 years.
While that's true, that doesn't change what I said. The current state of softmodems in Linux is basically non existent. That's fine, soft modems kind suck anyway ;)