Drivers for Motorola SB5120 Surfboard Cable Modem

[thekkk02]

Does anyone know where I can find drivers for Motorola SB5120 Surfboard Cable Modem. My VL doesnt recognizes it through USB port and I dont have ethernet. Motorolas web site says that for Linux its only compatible with ethernet but there has to be a driver for it to work with USB port in Linux. Windows recoginzes it but VL doesnt. Can anyone help me out please?

[uelsk8s]

turn on your VL box
after you login
open a terminal as ROOT and type lsusb.
post the reply to that here 
and post also the last 10 lines of dmesg also

[lagagnon]

I have done a bit of googling around. That modem works fine connected to ehternet but it seems you might have problems with the USB side. You might want to try this:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Motorola-Surfboard-Modem/usb.html
(but its for the 4100-4200 modems so it may not apply)

I could find no evidence here: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevcat.php?id=14&o=140&w=t&s=v&d=a of the 5120 being shown to work with Linux via USB (but it definetely will with ethernet).

Keep googling, you might stumble on something I didn't. Your easiest route might be to get a $15 ethernet card and connect via that.