Comments on: net-setup enhancements

By: Domon

Domon — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:42:07 +0000

Great!
Thanks a million.

By: pir187

pir187 — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:36:23 +0000

This is a good enhancement, really usefull. Makes the whole process more polished. I’ve had trouble setting up my nics because they were swapped right after the first reboot. Great stuff man!

Thanks, pir187

By: dsd

dsd — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:33:05 +0000

Only the second is mandatory, the first is bypassed if the user specified an interface on the command line. I agree that not everyone will understand all of the information, but that applies to net-setup (whats a subnet mask?) and Gentoo installation as a whole.

Remember that most users don’t even need to run this, as DHCP networks are autoconfigured.

By: spaetz

spaetz — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:52:40 +0000

I wonder if it is really necessary to show both dialogs as mandatory. I feel a lot of confusion coming up for not so computer-literate users when looking at the interface details dialog. If you hardly know the difference between WLAN and LAN, the MAC address of a card won’t be so useful to you.

Would it be possible to show this only when clicking on a button or somthing?
(Wording is bad, but you get the point.

By: Ira Snyder

Ira Snyder — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:48:03 +0000

Very nice. I’ve never used net-setup, but this looks like a great enhancement.