Getting optus ADSL working on Ubuntu

Hi all,
Firstly, I am by no means an expert in linux so feel free to point out
the "obvious"

I set up a ubuntu machine for my dad who is a 2 hour drive away from me.
I have optus cable so it works straight out of the box but he has optus
adsl and it doesnt work.

Using network-manager-gnome we checked the ip settings which all seem to
be good. An ip is assigned via dhcp in the 58.xxx range and the primary
and secondary dns servers seem fine.
The only thing I could find was that eth0 was not set as the default
gateway device which we did via the network settings panel.

Still we cannot ping google.com.au either by ip or by name.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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JB
My apologies for the multi-post for readers of alt.os.linux

In aus.computers.linux on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:22:00 +1000
John B <jbngspam.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I set up a ubuntu machine for my dad who is a 2 hour drive away from me.
> I have optus cable so it works straight out of the box but he has optus
> adsl and it doesnt work.

First question: Is the linux box talking to a dumb ADSL modem or a
smart one?

The dumb one doesn't do any of the connection work, meaning the linux
box has to be running PPPoE and you would have to tell your networking
GUI that you were doing ADSL.

If it's a smart modem then you are sure it has connected correctly?

If you have a dumb modem, then look in /var/log/messages at the part
that deals with the time you tried to connect. See what it says.

If there's anything that looks even vaguely network like, post it here
if you can't understand it.



Zebee