Bug#184857: netcfg-dhcp: Another vote for eliminating this message
Followup-For: Bug #184857
Package: netcfg-dhcp
Version: N/A; reported 2003-09-27
> In netcfg-dhcp, the message says 'This may take some time. It
> shouldn't take more than a minute or two.' However, this is presented
> in a dialog box where 'Continue' needs to be selected for this
> 'lengthy' process to start. I understand we shouldn't refer to the
> button name directly, but how can we make the user understand that the
> Continue button should be pressed to start the operation? I think a
> new user could sit there looking at that message for a long time,
> thinking that the operation it referred to was already in process.
file a bug. IMHO this message is bogus anyway. In my experience if a
dhcp server doesn't respond within the first 10 seconds, you won't get a
lease.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux ip68-107-137-100.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.19-powerpc #1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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