I had a hell of a time getting that freakin Earthlink cable modem to work with my Redhat 8.0 box. I finally said forget it and decided to get the router up and running instead of messin with that box. I was going to run smoothwall 2.0 but due to networking issues that I had not resolved I couldnt get the .iso to the right machine. So I went with Coyote Linux, I've used it before so I pretty much knew what to expect. I used the windows disk creator and after I made the disk and brought the box up I still couldnt get a valid IP. So I tried all types of stuff to get it working... I copied all the IP information that it had when under windows and typed it into the config... that didnt work. Finally it came down to me just rebooting the modem and bam!!! its up. I have 2 other computers up and on the net as well, I even have my packet 8 phone working too.