network profiles - do they work for you? they are broken for me!

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Mon May 28 07:21:34 UTC 2007


On 5/25/07, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:35:14PM +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > On 5/25/07, John DeDourek <dedourek at unb.ca> wrote:
> > >Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > >> Can you please look at my youtube video and then respond if I use
> > >> system-config-network how it is not supposed to be used or if
> > >> system-config-network is broken?
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoy9k5euZRQ
>
> Nice.  You have discovered the horrible UI design mistake in
> s-c-network.  You need to copy the "Device", and check the checkbox
> in the left column for each profile you want to have that "Device".
> In this case "Device" isn't the hardware device "eth0" but really a
> template for a hardware device.  So you need to create two "templates"
> or "Devices" e.g.:
>
> Device: eth0Home
> Device: eth0Work
>
> and set those up.
>
> Then for each "Profile" enable only one of the two "Device"s:
>
> Profile "Home" has the "Profile" column checked for "Device"
> "eth0Home".
>
> Profile "Work" has the "Profile" column checked for "Device"
> "eth0Work".
>
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Ok... as I see it this problem is not new. Is anybody doing some
active work to make system-config-network better? Or is it abandoned
and some new tool is on the rise?

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