[wlug] conexant and intel ham modems

Hi Recently upgraded to Fedora 2 Then realised that the linuxant driver for my conexant hcf modem would not work .. and the only one available free is cripple ware at 14.4k .. it is ~$15$US to upgrade to the full 56k ok .. so I can buy a new DS Intel Ham modem for abt the same .. maybe less .. BUT a bt of research shows that intel have no plans to release a 2.6 kernel version of the linux driver for this 536ep modem .... Has anyone any suggestions on how to get 56k back thriftily (excluding going back to the 2.4 kernel Thanks Stephen