URGENT HELP NEEDED!!! Internet and email on Ubuntu.

[Jeff Bailes]

(OOPs, I should have sent this to the list, sorry)

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 18:08 +1030, SMOK wrote:
> Hi Ubuntus,
>  
> I am on a CABLE bigpond plan.
> Here is what I have.
> From the back of my computer I can see a cable (seems to be Ethernet),
> which is connected to some kind of Motorola black box.
> Out of this box there goes another cable, which goes through the
> brick-wall to the Foxtel network.
>  
> As you suggested I found things like IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway,
> Dsn and everything else possible.
> I have transferred that data to Ubuntu.

Bigpond uses DHCP as far as I know, in which case you didn't need to
transfer all those options to Ubuntu, and your IP address is probably
dynamic as well meaning that setting the IP address manually WILL cause
problems.  You should set your Ubuntu options to use DHCP, then it will
get IP address, DNS server etc automatically.

>  
> Now I have a question, a very simple question (I guess).
> Where do I put my bigpond account number, user name and password?
> Is it a simple question or a dumb question?
> How would it be possible that all of you guys get IP Address and
> Gateway from Telstra and I get account number?

Has Bigpond dropped their heartbeat system yet does anyone know?  There
were talks that they would take Optus' lead and use the MAC address of
the Modem to identify itself.  If that is the case you don't need to
login using your account number etc

If they haven't dropped it yet you can probably use bpalogin to identify
yourself (I haven't used it personally, I just searched for 'bigpond' in
synaptic.)

Install it using:
'sudo apt-get install bpalogin'

>  
> Please, find the picture attached.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Robert
>  

Good luck
        Jeff