Subject: misc/7523: sysinst network configuration sucks
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/05/1999 20:21:54
>Number: 7523
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: sysinst network configuration sucks
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 5 20:20:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Charles M. Hannum
>Organization:
Internetwork Hacker
>Release: 1.4_BETA
>Environment:
NetBSD 1.4_BETA on a Libretto 50CT
>Description:
In a lame attempt to ignore pseudo-devices, the sysinst
network configuration eliminates any network device names
returned by `ifconfig -l' after lo0. This loses in the case
where the network device was added after autoconfig -- say,
because it's a PCMCIA card, and we had to have the PCMCIA
floppy controller plugged in to boot.
This makes it `impossible' to install over the network on such
a machine -- which is particularly annoying since it doesn't
have a CD-ROM drive.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install 1.4_BETA on a Libretto 50CT.
>Fix:
Rewrite sysinst's get_ifconfig_info().
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: