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I have just recently, today, recieved broadband access, through road runner using the Toshiba pcx2200 cable modem; and i have a SMC ez card 10/100 (smc1211tx). now in windows when i try to hook it up from the cable modem to the nic with the cat 5 i get no connectivity and it seems to assign me a private ip number 169 etc etc...it works fine through usb...but Red Hat 9 doesnt seem to like it using usb....and when i try to run it through the nic in linux it doesnt work either...and i read somewhere that the only way for the cable modem to work is through the nic...so can anyone please help me...the help would be greatly appreciated.

Kroppus

Hmm. i don't know if this will get you any further. But as i've found out most cards from SMC uses the TULIP networkdriver.
Something i usually forget when i'm compiling my kernels the first time.

lsmod should give you some hint if it's there or not.
apart from that i'm blank. USB is something i only use for my mouse