How's this for an idea for dhcp. If priority is high, then run dhcp, but in the background, and only for 30 seconds (or some better chosen time that is long enough for most dhcp servers to reply, and short enough to not annoy people with no dhcp). Check to see if an interface is up now. If not, ask the user if they want to try harder, or fall back to a manual network setup. If the user decides to go on with dhcp, go into a loop of checking again for an interface to be up, and checking to make sure the dhcp client is still running. If the client exits w/o bringing up an interface, fail as it does now. If an interface comes up, succeed. If the user chooses to do a manual config instead, then kill the dhcp client, and run netcfg-static. -- see shy jo
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