[newbie] cable modem

[Jacob Aaron Holbrook]

I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider.  Windows 
detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider 
supports.  Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't 
give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because 
they don't support Linux.

thanks,
Jacob Holbrook