{"id":102,"date":"2006-06-01T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/06\/net-setup-enhancements\/"},"modified":"2006-06-01T19:30:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T19:30:47","slug":"net-setup-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/06\/net-setup-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"net-setup enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users experienced with Gentoo&#8217;s console install method may be familiar with <b>net-setup<\/b>, a simple ncurses\/dialog utility to configure network interfaces. It can also be used on a live system (found in the <em>app-misc\/livecd-tools<\/em> package).<\/p>\n<p>One source of confusion during installation is the naming of network interfaces &#8211; this is sometimes different from the naming on a live system (eth0 swaps with eth1, etc).<\/p>\n<p>I added two additional dialogs to the net-setup wizard which attempt to make it clear to the user exactly which interface is which. The data mostly comes from sysfs. Here are some screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/reactivated.net\/weblog-content\/20060601-net-setup-1.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/reactivated.net\/weblog-content\/20060601-net-setup-2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will be available in the next livecd-tools release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users experienced with Gentoo&#8217;s console install method may be familiar with net-setup, a simple ncurses\/dialog utility to configure network interfaces. It can also be used on a live system (found in the app-misc\/livecd-tools package). One source of confusion during installation is the naming of network interfaces &#8211; this is sometimes different from the naming on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}