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[nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>]

Casey Harkins wrote:
> I think it might be better to unroll the for loop here and just ask the
> questions in order. Two reasons:
>
> 1) It will allow dialog to be more specific to the question. For example,
> the good ole' dynamic/static question could be asked something like this:
>
>   dialog --menu "How should this card determine its IP address?" 10 40 2
>                 "DHCP" "" "static" ""
>
> 2) The questions asked can be dependent on the input: (hopefully this
> beautiful tree will work out :-)
>
>         MODULE
>           |
>     DHCP vs STATIC
>     /          \
>   DONE         IP
>                 |
>              BROADCAST
>                 |
>               NETMASK
>                 |
>               GATEWAY
>                 |
>                DONE
>
> If DHCP is chosen, then IP, BROADCAST, NETMASK and GATEWAY don't need to
> be asked.

Oh, that's beautiful... I might just cry... mainly cause I gotta recode 
the frickin thing now! Yay! I love it when you guys do this stuff. The 
beauty of open source... sniff...

> Also, it might be useful for the MODULE message to mention to leave blank
> for static network drivers. IIRC, the networking.sh script still attempts
> to "modprobe $MODULE", even if $MODULE is empty. So this would need to be
> fixed as well.

Fixed that already. =)

I still need dialogs for the various things there. Kinda in a time 
crunch now...

neal

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