[H-GEN] big pond cable on knoppix 4

[Stephen Thorne]

On 14/11/05, Mick <mickhowe at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:14, David Harrison wrote:
> > > I've never done it, but I think you still need bpalogin (I think
> > > that's what it's called) in order to login to your account. AFAIK you
> > > don't get it from telstra but a google search would reveal its
> > > location and instructions.
> >
> > You can download it usage-free from BigPond Files (though its only 55k
>
> I have installed bpalogin (from ftp.debian.org), but it seems to take more
> than just that.
>
> if it makes a difference he has the motorola surf cable modem connected to
> eth0 and a clean install of Knoppix 4.

Configuring bpalogin should go something like this, I've installed
bpalogin myself using apt-get on ubuntu, but on fedora it should be
similar.

As root,
Install bpalogin, preferably using a package built for your
distribution (rpm, deb)
edit /etc/bpalogin.conf, uncomment (if necessery) the 'username' and
'password' lines, substituting the correct username and passwords. The
section in my bpalogin.conf example file looks like:

# The user name you have for your BPA account
# username yourname

# Your BPA password
# password yourpass

Next, you should make sure your network interface is configured to use
dhcp, and verify that you have an intenet accessable ip address. The
modem will give you one even if you have not yet logged in.

Next, you should run bpalogin in the foreground, to check that it
operates correctly.

bpalogin -d 2 -l stdout -D
will run the client in the most verbose logging mode.

If the bpalogin client indicates success logging in, attempt a 'ping'
to an internet accessable site.
ping -c 4 www.humbug.org.au

If it works, just run /etc/init.d/bpalogin start, and it should start
on reboot (on redhat, running
"chkconfig --add bpalogin" might be necessery, if you didn't install
with an rpm).

Reboot, wait 30 minutes, make sure the net still works. This is
important, because your 'login' persists over reboots, and will only
expire when the keepalive doesn't 'check in' for a long time (6
minutes? I don't remember..)
--
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer