What kind of modem? not all are supported.
Some might require some work to get running like winmodems, ISDN modems. You can try to find out what kind of modem you have and then look at the the websites for different linux dists and see if any of the support it.
You can also search for linux and the name of your modem in
www.google.com and se if you find any information.
Redhat, mandrake, suse are all graphical and "user friendly"
http://www.linuxiso.org/http://www.linux.org/wine runns most of the programs/games that exists for windows. But only a few programs/games runs 100% perfect.
Wine is still in development and is still alpha software.
It is not exactly for endusers
