On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 01:45:58AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > Not me. > And I think there was never such bug as asking for MAC details from the User.
I have certainly never seen it, and don't recall any such thing in any installer I have used since 2.0. > In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295888 is > an user request asking _showing_ MAC address. Quoting the BR: > > | Primary network interface: > | eth0: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet > | eth1: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet > | > | The user has no chance to select the right network interface. > | At least the MAC address should be displayed. > > > The installation would continue without tricks > just by picking an I/F. That I can certainly believe, which would have been a hassle for those affected by it. > > I am in midst of making a presentation hence need that historical > > information for accuracy. > > Was there ever the bug as the original poster described? I don't think so. I can't think of a reason the installer would ever ask for the MAC, unless you are talking some odd ball ARM hardware that didn't have a MAC in hardware and required the user to provide one. But would Debian have even had an installer for such a thing? Searching the bug database for bugs mentioning mac in the subject (which I would hope anyone submitting a bug about such a problem would have used) against debian-installer and boot-floppies, I see nothing what so ever that as anything like this in archived and unarchived bugs. -- Len Sorensen
