Robin Axelsson wrote: > On 2012-01-27 16:45, James Carlson wrote: >> Robin Axelsson wrote: >>> On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: >>>> What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface >>>> (guided by user selection criteria) for the system. The fact that you >>>> got multiple interfaces configured is indeed an anomaly, and one I >>>> can't >>>> explain. I don't know how you got there in the first place. It >>>> shouldn't have happened. >>> I don't agree with you on that. Many motherboards come with dual >>> ethernet ports (i.e. dual NICs, I have counted the chips myself) and it >>> is not uncommon with laptops with one wired ethernet interface and a >>> wireless one. So as you said, there is the potential risk of >>> interference between the two interfaces even though one may not even be >>> connected. >> Don't agree how? > > That systems with multiple interfaces are an anomaly, but maybe that's > not what you meant.
Likely not, as multiple interfaces were exactly the reason that NWAM was invented in the first place. Without multiple interfaces, there's not a whole lot of need for something like it. The primary use-case for NWAM was a laptop with wired and wireless, and being able to switch between them when advantageous without having to get the user involved. >> If all compromised drivers exposed a "I'm potentially garbage" flag, >> then, fine, that independent part could read that flag and do whatever >> it wants based on it. But merely reading the letters "rge" and deciding >> to impugn the connection based on some history or accusations strikes me >> as untenable. >> > > The only opinion that I have is that it should work and reliably so. The > rge driver is apparently buggy and that's what people say about it in > mailing lists. It is included with the OI distribution/repository. If I > had the time and knowledge I would try and fix it myself but > unfortunately I don't. That's all well and good, but, as I was saying, I don't agree that modifying NWAM (or any other part of the system for that matter) to disparage particular drivers is a good thing at all. At a minimum, the energy spent in creating the illuminated manuscript of "bad" drivers would be better spent debugging and fixing the darned things. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
