Motorola Surfboard4200 USB Cable Modem

boy · 12-04-2002, 08:48 AM

hi forks

herez another newbie question

i've got got a Motorola Surfboard4200 USB Cable Modem, i have no idea how to make it work with linux.

any direction would be greatly appreciated

cheers

j

james1787 · 12-04-2002, 09:24 AM

If your cable modem has an ethernet port, I highly reccommend using that instead of the usb cable. I also highly reccommend the purchase of a firewall to protect your data. If you go the cable modem / firewall route, all you need for your computer is an ethernet card. If you know some networking basics it should be easy to setup.

The reason I would never use a usb port is because there is very little securitly protecting you from the outside world.

boy · 12-06-2002, 04:48 AM

i think i know what to do with the ethernet connection, but it doesn't seem to work, tell me what's wrong with the procedure that i've set out below, i am just trying this with winXP, the same procedure should apply for linux

1. connect modem to ethernet card
2. make sure i install the ethernet card
3. run DHCP client on the ethernet connection connected to the modem

i think that's pretty much it

but it doesn't seem to work even on windows, can any one see anything wrong with this

cheers

j