Quoth Zhenghui Xie on Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 03:06:45PM -0700: > >The difference between boot & standalone is not a difference in network > >environment, but a difference in knowledege about the network > >environment. We always boot into the boot profile because we don't know > >what the network environment is like at boot (because both the network > >hardware isn't fully available, and NWAM is implemented in userland, > >which isn't fully available). Once NWAM has started and done its > >initial network probe, it has enough information to decide whether there > >is a network or not, and if there's not, it can switch to the standalone > >profile. > > But what if NWAM detect some network attachment one second later after > the switch? how would this differentiation help us?
It doesn't help in that case. There's nothing we can do for that. The user will understand. David