[SM-Discuss] New x86_64 ISO

Elisamuel Resto samuel at dragonboricua.net
Sun Jan 18 23:29:16 EST 2009


On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:28:20 +0900, Kajikawa Jeremy wrote:
> 
> Well Im the lucky owner of having access to both an AMD Sempron 32bit
> and AMD Athlon64 X2 SMP kit,
> 
> I can report this... with regards SMP...
>  I was using SMP on the Uniprocessor Sempron with no issues at all...
>  so I +1 shipping ISOs with SMP enabled kernels (there is few options to
> change)
>  and also recommend a *server* multitasking selection in the kernel
> config.
>  let the user change the kernel options (SMGL users generally rebuild to
> install anyway)
> 
> I would also recommend having a default /etc/network/interfaces file
> preset with
>  *NO* "auto" lines and enable for the user to optionally have eth0 or
> another interface
>  prepared for dhcp network connectivity (do we need scripting for this?)
> 
> The only query I have is possible need for wifi drivers to need
> wpa_supplicant already
>  installed (in case of wpa wireless requirements).  it is very painful
> to setup by hand
>  and reasonably simple to prepare a hidden and dedicated network config
> for this
> 
> I'll bugzilla for this if not already present...
> 
> Sincerely,
>  Jeremy(/Belxjander/)

I saw ruskie propose that the only "auto" device be lo, in a
default /etc/network/interfaces, and that sounds the best solution.

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