You need to read Cable-HOWTO and Ethernet-HOWTO in order to find your NIC-specific information (NICs distributed by cable companies may not work out of the box). Other than that, get NIC working properly (proper kernel modules), fire up dhcp client of your choice with hostname you were given, and it should all work. Andrei
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