Re: suggestion for the installer

2020-10-30 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 10/29/20 3:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 2020-10-29 08:00, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, do you think it would be possible for the installer to show an eye-catching warning, if "ifconfig" reports "no carrier" for the network port to configure? Just a suggestion, of course Harri Why?

Re: suggestion for the installer

2020-10-29 Thread Tom Smyth
it possibly an inline indicator on wired on question which interface do you want to configure em0, em1 (down), em2down) [em0] : but wireless interfaces will always be down before you associate with the AP... that said if using DHCP it is pretty obvious when a link is down... and on a

Re: suggestion for the installer

2020-10-29 Thread Theo de Raadt
Nick Holland wrote: > On 2020-10-29 08:00, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > do you think it would be possible for the installer to show > > an eye-catching warning, if "ifconfig" reports "no carrier" > > for the network port to configure? > > > > Just a suggestion, of course > >

Re: suggestion for the installer

2020-10-29 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Harald, If im not mistaken when the installer is running when you configure dhcp on the interface t will warn you that it is not receiving any leases. I can see your concerns about the static ip configuration at a guess I think the issue is there is no config on the interfaces so they

Re: suggestion for the installer

2020-10-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-10-29 08:00, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > do you think it would be possible for the installer to show > an eye-catching warning, if "ifconfig" reports "no carrier" > for the network port to configure? > > Just a suggestion, of course > Harri Why? What problem are you trying to

suggestion for the installer

2020-10-29 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, do you think it would be possible for the installer to show an eye-catching warning, if "ifconfig" reports "no carrier" for the network port to configure? Just a suggestion, of course Harri