On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:11 -0700, Rainer Heilke wrote: > > > The buttons in the network admin GUI seem to be > > > just for show. > > > > Yes, they are. They're clearly designed for an > > operating system other > > than Solaris, and need to be re-designed. > > Thankfully, I think the NWAM > > hase 1 project is planning on implementing a better > > user interface. > > rant on > This should NEVER have been rolled into a release until it was at least > half ready! We're trying to attract people TO OpenSolaris, not drive them > away. If an old hand like me has trouble, how is a newcomer supposed to > figure this out? A product (NWAM) that seems to do nothing and a GUI that > does, in fact, do nothing but mangle files? sigh > rant off
The NWAM feature that's currently in OpenSolaris (dubbed "NWAM Phase 0") was designed for laptops that visit networks managed via DHCP. It does a fairly good job of detecting wireless and wired networks, and automatically configuring interfaces via DHCP based on a simple priority heuristic. If configuration needs to go beyond those capabilities, then one needs to revert to "manual mode" (to borrow the terminology from the nwamd(1M) man page) and use the traditional Solaris networking configuration methods. On its face, and IMO, this is acceptable, except that people don't know to go read nwamd(1M) when their network configuration isn't being applied. It's not necessarily a problem with functionality, but rather a problem of awareness of how the system works and how one should interact with it. I think the "NWAM Phase 1" project will go a long way toward raising that awareness, making the feature more complete by introducing a user interface, and handling a broader set of configurations. Of course, the NWAM team can undoubtedly do a much better job of talking about their project, so if you have any input, I'd suggest sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for the Gnome network administration GUI, I'll stop at what I've already said :-). Again, and thankfully, I think it's being replaced with something that is well-integrated. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/UIDesign/Phase1/ > Thanks again for the help; it is _greatly_ appreciated. > Rainer Anytime, -Seb
_______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
