Bug#450605: install: Network card selection should show mac address
* Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl) wrote:
> On Thursday 08 November 2007, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > It really should show the MAC address to let you distinguish which
> > interface you intend to use; in my case I have a set of Dell PE 1955
> > blades where the ether card the BIOS sees as the first device is seen
> > as eth1 under Debian and I know the Mac address of the appropriate one.
>
> This is a known issue. I've merged your request with existing similar
> requests. What we really need at this point is someone motivated to
> actually propose and implement a solution...
Thanks - I'm curious what there is to propose about it; just
printing the MAC address of the interface either next to or
as a 2nd line for each interface should do it - or is there something
harder about that which I'm missing?
Dave
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