Bolero wrote:
The modem has one USB and one Ethernet port. At present I use USB to connect to the Internet and the Ethernet port to enable Internet access to my second machine (XP Pro). By the way,I can switch both ports around, everything still works fine.
In that case, you're probably best off swapping them around. What Crossfire most eloquently said is true; it's a *lot* easier to set up a Linux machine with an ethernet modem than a USB-connected one.
You should be able to just plug it in, and configure the interface in Linux to get its IP address dynamically via DHCP.
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