Hi Del, Just a followup. The dhcp client worked! The problem seemed to be that he had all sorts of other bits of attempted configuration in there. Once he reset and tried dhcp it worked OK. I guess this means that Bigpond has altered their setup to be more open standards friendly..?
If it's of interest, I'll get his setup info for future reference. Thanks for replying Del. Stuart On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:56, Del wrote: > Stuart Guthrie wrote: > > Has anyone setup these two to play together nicely. I've just > > recommended the WRT054G to a friend and bigpond are not being helpful as > > to how to connect. ie pppoe, ppptp dhcp. > > > > I'm sure it can be done, but what incantation? > > > > His setup is (hopefully) > > > > PC . wifi card ~~~~~~ WRT054G -- CableModem -----------> Bigpond > > ^^ ethernet cable > > ^^^ Wireless > > I'm going to answer this by saying that I'm reasonably sure > it can't be done. Bigpond cable require a proprietary connection > protocol that is not pptp, is not pppoe, and requires a specific > login program that they only provide for Windows and MacOS. > > You can get an unsupported one for Linux called bpalogin but > I'm not even going to hazard a guess about how you'd go about > installing that on a WRT054G. > > http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/ > > -- > Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
