• bmf
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Topic: Help files suggestion, ie networking

At the very least, if help files are included, please provide the networking help file on the live CD and fresh install.
Thankfully I had another system, but was saddened by the inability to read a help file because the default networking was hosed. And I have a basic VIA ethernet card that has always worked like a champ without any cli voodoo. Gotta get the networking down, fellas. It's THE dealbreaker.

Oh, and hello all!

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Re: Help files suggestion, ie networking

Feel free to start making/typing this offline documentation. Im sure Philip and the community would appreciate it  big_smile

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Re: Help files suggestion, ie networking

The help files are online... My suggestion is to make them available in the event users have issues, particularly the networking section. I just went back to debian on that old system, I may check out #! on one of my laptops, though. Thanks!

To clarify your response...
You want me to copy and paste the existing help files into plain text?
Don't worry about it. This reminds me of why I shutdown my launchpad account.

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Re: Help files suggestion, ie networking

As someone who relies on wifi most of the time, rarely having access to a real 'wired' network I can understand the need for adding the relevant guide to the shipped media. The obvious downside is that it does become a version-control headache.

You say it exists, so could you provide the link?

Fortunately I've usually got three or four Internet-enabled devices with me as well as a crossover cable. I use a guide like this one to give those stubborn distros 'wired' internet from a second computer when I've only got wireless or gprs available:
http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2008/12/ … on-ubuntu/

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Re: Help files suggestion, ie networking

On the subject of help files or manuals, anybody noticed Ubuntu's latest effort?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual
A two-hundred page PDF to be shipped with Lucid (at present time 70% complete - full of insightful comments in the margins). Personally I'd prefer a well-structured HTML or CHM file - but it's a decent effort.