Re: No cable autodetection!?
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:21:47AM +0200, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some days ago a potential new Linux user came to me, curiously trying out this
> strange new free operating system that can be started up from a DVD or a USB
> flash drive.
>
> Everything went smoothly until he wanted to go online and noticed that he
> forgot to plug in the ethernet cable. No problem, I thought, just plug in the
> cable and wait a few seconds. But, to my surprise, nothing happened. I had to
> open konsole and call
> $ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
> $ sudo pump -i eth0
> to establish a LAN connection. This really turned down my new hopeful
> aspirant.
>
> Today I tried the same with Debian Live (KDE) and everything worked like
> expected. The nice thing here was that KNetworkManager was running and
> providing an easy interface to all networking related stuff. Knoppix should
> provide a similar solution.
I have strong security-related objections against this automatism, and
also against KNetworkManager itself which changes EVERYTHING in the way
Debians network configuration works.
KNetworkManager also adds about 30-40 MB of dependencies, which is very
bad for the CD version.
Greetings
-Klaus Knopper
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