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  • From: Elisamuel Resto <samuel AT dragonboricua.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] New x86_64 ISO
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:29:16 -0400

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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