On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Andras Barna <andras.barna at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Andras Barna <andras.barna at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> i'm shocked ....
>>> not all users have a computer farm at home..
>>
>>
>> They use Windows 7.
>
> so static ip users should use it too..
> problem solved


That's not true.
Current real-existing situation: After the install is complete then
please choose from Gnomes menu  [Administration] --->> [Network] (or
issue /usr/bin/network-admin).
Then you get asked if you prefer manual configuration (everything
involved gets done now, /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/hosts,
/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/defaultrouter etc etc etc, not a an incomplete
job anymore which potentially confuses new users).

What more (beyond maybe a pppd-GUI, such as
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Networking/GnuPPP-36649.shtml or
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2491 or many more choices) do you
want?

All I suggested was, that - whatever get's or doesn't get added to the
installation process - should be based on the shipping
/usr/bin/network-admin    aka   network-admin(1).
I do not agree with your logic that it would be less work to write a
new solution, instead of somehow incorporating the existing one into
the installation process, if so desired (either by simply calling it,
or by embedding the content into caiman, via using a shared library).

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