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

[Jeff Bailes]

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 18:55 +1100, Minarwan (Min) wrote:
> 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. :(

I don't have first hand experience with Bigpond, but I would assume this
would be how it works.

> 
> >
> > 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? :)

That is a very good point, the fact that the Internet wasn't up
completely slipped my mind.

	Jeff