Bug 117426 - Selecting ethernet interfaces should be by product name + MAC + pci slot, not only MAC
Summary: Selecting ethernet interfaces should be by product name + MAC + pci slot, not...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: RC 4
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Michal Zugec
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-09-16 08:19 UTC by Andreas Kleen
Modified: 2007-05-31 15:46 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Kleen 2005-09-16 08:19:07 UTC 
e.g. when I select an ethernet interface in the DSL configuration  
I only get a list of MAC addresses, which is very unintuitive 
because hardly anyone can remember these long hex strings (or at least I 
can't) 
  
It would be better to show the product name (like IP network configuration)  
does and the pcibus/slot (to make it unique if there are multiple ones) + mac  
address.  
  
IP configuration also misses bus/slot.
Comment 1 Martin Vidner 2006-08-28 11:52:27 UTC 
Reassigning to the new maintainer of yast2-network.
Comment 2 Michal Zugec 2007-05-28 12:27:44 UTC 
what about same dialog like exists in TestInternet (during installation)?
Comment 3 Andreas Kleen 2007-05-28 14:37:30 UTC 
I don't think i've ever used that dialog (I always skip that test). I'll look
next time I reinstall some box. But if it has the information I outlined
above it is probably ok.
Comment 4 Michal Zugec 2007-05-28 14:58:32 UTC 
There is:
device type, device name, IP address, device ID
I'm sure that this is enought and if not, we should use "one code" and improve both of them
Comment 5 Michal Zugec 2007-05-31 15:46:49 UTC 
fixed in 2.15.38