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Turns out I have an LT Win Modem, which apparantly isn't very friendly with Linux. I found some drivers at linmodems.com, though the documentation was a bunch of technical jargan. But from what I did understand, the drivers I downloaded (I only got a couple) didn't create the proper directories in the /dev folder, because what it said should show up in the modem options didn't.

*confused*