[Chrysalis]

great post.

I am all for ethernet over usb, but seems I have been forced to use usb for my cable modem (only thing stopping me disabling usb on my system). When I tried to use ethernet for my modem it was stuck on a 169.x ip address I tried ip /release and ip /renew, but nothing ever happened and this was with the firewall turned off.

Now I can't remember exactly what I did because this was months ago and to be honest it has been working fine on usb, but I would like to give ethernet another shot, in ethernet is the modem still supposed to appear in device manager and you setup the ip on the cable modem device (same as usb) or do you get the ip address assigned to the ethernet card, last time I tried I think it wasn't listed in device manager and I was using release and renew on the ethernet card.

Thanks