Hmmmm.... This thing is 56k/EtherNet. Two ports on dongle. One for each. Thought that made it a modem card AND an ethernet card.
Then in that case, it's not that the thing won't work with cable modems..ethernet is ethernet is ethernet...the adapter has no idea what the next device on the network is, only if it sends and recieves packets successfully to and from it.
1) Do you know the ethernet card works? Drivers installed? Dongle functional?
2) TCP/IP set correctly? Do you need PPoE?
3) Have you tried resetting the cable modem? Some are set so that they recognize the first device plugged in after a reset, and won't work with any other device until reset.*
4) Sometimes you have to tell the cable company what the hardware address of your ethernet card is...this is the same blocking mechanism as above, but managed centrally, rather than in hardware.*
5) Are you sure the Cable modem works? 'Tis thunderstorm season; lots of electronics devices fry this time of year.
* This indicates you may be better off with a cable router anyway: this way only one device ever connects to the cable modem, and you get the added bonus of having an instant home network with NAT and a firewall, usually.
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