Can't Configure USB ADSL Router

[powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp (Mark Sargent)]

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote

>Wow. Bad idea.
>
>You should use either the ethernet connection OR the USB connection
>of the modem. Connecting one computer to each interface spells trouble.
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Now have XP(Desktop) and Laptop(Linux) connected to either interface, 
and they are both working fine.

>Why don't you just connect one computer to the other using a crossover
>ethernet cabe ?
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Well, at the moment, I don't have either a Hub/Switch or Cross-over 
cable, otherwise I woulda done it by now. Thanx for the suggestion, 
though. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.