You're in luck, Michael-

The cable modem should be transparent to the OS, the NICs the thing that 
must install correctly, and Mandrake should auto-detect it during the 
install. Just answer the questions at the prompts when installing and 
all should be well.

Lee Einer


Michael Havens wrote:

>I am going over to a friends house this Saturday (the friend who got me 
>involved with linux) and am installing Mandrake onto his box. My request is 
>that you teach me how to get his modem operational so that he can talk to you 
>wonderful people(so he will have access to all of you without having to 
>operate M$ Windows. I sure hope that this is not to vague of a question. What 
>I need to know is what do I need to link to get it to work ; what do I haave 
>to copy . Oh yea..... he has a cable modem. Gosh, I feel like I just asked an 
>impossible question!
>