From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: While installing my Motorola Surfboard 4200 series cable modem, I found that when I tried to set it up using the netconfig tool, it would modify modprobe.conf to load the module CDCEther, which seems to have been replaced by usbnet. When I change the entry in modules.conf to usbnet, everything works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to install a new USB Network interface 2.Save and commit changes, netconfig reports that eth1 isn't detected and it's initialization will be delayed 3.Use modprobe to load usbnet, and then try activating the interface again. Additional info: