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

[Minarwan (Min)]

On 12/16/06, Jeff Bailes <thepizzaking at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

Opst..I gave someone a wrong information then, sorry. :(

>
> 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'
>

Now how can he download it before he get connected to the net? :)

min