HOW TO Bigpond Cable with bpalogin

[deanjm1963]

I use bpalogin. The easiest way to get it up and running is this.

Install bpalogin

then open a terminal and type
sudo gedit /etc/bpalogin.conf

set your name where is says username joebloggs (or whatever your username is)
set your password where it says password goldilocks (or whatever your password is)

Then scroll down to the very bottom of the file and uncomment

minheartbeatinterval 60

maxheartbeatinterval 420

save and close the file

to get it to start automatically

again, in a terminal

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

and make the following changes

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
pre-up /usr/sbin/bpalogin start

save and close the file. make sure you have a carriage return after the last line.

This works for both Breezy and Dapper

[az_s_za]

...scroll down to the very bottom of the file and uncomment

minheartbeatinterval 60

maxheartbeatinterval 420...

What do you mean by "uncomment"? What do I do at this step?

Thanks.

[jms830]

uncomment means you put a # symbol in front of it, effectively "disabling" the lines.

[mchoo]

Hi,

Which BPALogin version should I download for Ubuntu? There are several flavours for Linux, but none of them is specific for Ubuntu.

Thanks

[mchoo]

deanjm1963, I installed bpalogin, followed your instructions, but still no go. Please help??