On 09/21/2009 04:33 PM, Chris Lumens wrote:
> Today while installing F11 from DVD, I noticed something : if one
has
> multiple Ethernet cards in his/her computer, if booting with 'asknetwork',
> when it comes to configuring the network you are greeted with eth0 :<MAC
> address> and below eth1 :<MAC address>. I think it would be niftier if the
> identification string of the card was printed also (eg VIA Rhine III) so
> people would know what card to choose and how.
>
If you've got two network cards of the same kind, they're going to have
the same description. Also the UI is constrained to something like<70
characters there so there's not really all that much we can display
there.
- Chris
They're different; and listing the description string looks more
important to the user than listing the MAC.