Bug 135828
| Summary: | "Network Configuration" help should warn about PCMCIA and "Active on Boot" | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Barry K. Nathan <barryn> |
| Component: | anaconda-help | Assignee: | Chris Lumens <clumens> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | barryn |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-06-07 18:06:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 150221 | ||
I'm not sure how relevant some of this is with the new way PCMCIA is handled. Chris -- can you take a look This shouldn't be a problem with the more recent PCMCIA system. In addition, we've removed the help panel entirely because it wasn't ever very helpful and I have removed the PCMCIA-specific portion of text from that error message so it won't be misleading. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927 Description of problem: I just happened to notice this dialog box, when I tried to set no network devices to be "Active on Boot": ---begin quote--- Error With Data You have no active network devices. Your system will not be able to communicate over a network by default without at least one device active. NOTE: If you have a PCMCIA-based network adapter you should leave it inactive at this point. When you reboot your system the adapter will be activated automatically. ---end quote--- The thing is, if I hadn't tried deactivating all network devices on this system, I *never* would have seen anything in the installer about keeping "Active on Boot" disabled for PCMCIA devices. IMO the "Network Configuration" help should mention this somewhere. Unless I'm *really* tired or something, I couldn't find it mentioned anywhere in that help text. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-help-10.0.4-1.noarch.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start an fc-devel install. 2. At the "Network Configuration" screen, read through the help text. 3. Uncheck "Active on Boot" for all network devices. 4. Click "Next". 5. Read the dialog box. Actual Results: PCMCIA "Active on Boot" gotcha is mentioned only in the dialog box. Expected Results: It should be mentioned in the "Network Configuration" help text too. Additional info: I'm aware that it's (almost certainly) too late to fix this for FC3, but if it could be fixed for FC4 I'd appreciate it. (BTW, is it too late to fix this for RHEL4?)