A short how to video about connecting your Cisco PIX or ASA to an ISP DSL or Cable modem using DHCP. "Always remember to issue the "Write memory" command when you are finish confingure you cisco pix firewall."
There should be a capability or a mode you can choose to make the cable modem turn into a simple AP and then make the default gateway on that device point to the INSIDE ip address of the firewall (in this case 172.16.1.1). Also configure your firewall with DHCP for the 172.16.1.X subnet, this way anyone who connects to your "new AP" and requests an IP address gets an ip from the Firewall's dhcp.