Bug 133955 – network device description in net-setup

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-05-21 09:19:01 UTC]

I have added two extra dialogs to net-setup, which detail the network devices available and the one being configured. This should help users who get confused when the ethX numbering does not match that of a 'real' system.

Here are some screenshots:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/net-setup-1.gif
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/net-setup-2.gif

[Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-05-21 09:21:00 UTC]

Created attachment 87196 [details, diff]
patch

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 05:49:29 UTC]

Just curious, but have you tested this on a 2.4 kernel to make sure it doesn't vomit all over the screen?

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 06:02:43 UTC]

Nevermind, I see that you hide the errors.  Is there any way that we could do this in a way that also works on 2.4, then?  Some architectures, specifically alpha and sparc, still ship a 2.4 kernel on thei CD, and I would like for things to be consistent across architectures.

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-05-23 09:06:39 UTC]

Not that I can think of - this is exactly the kind of thing that sysfs was designed for. The current version won't break on 2.4, it just won't display the extra info.

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-06-02 05:04:37 UTC]

Added to livecd-tools 1.0.30