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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-11-06 23:42:24 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-11-06 23:50:14 +0100
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doc: Make the ifconfig command more visible.
Suggested by Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>. * doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Move the 'ifconfig' command to an @example.
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@@ -5293,14 +5293,19 @@ To install the system, you would:
@enumerate
@item
-Configure the network, by running @command{ifconfig eno1 up && dhclient
-eno1} (to get an automatically assigned IP address from the wired
+Configure the network, by running:
+
+@example
+ifconfig eno1 up && dhclient eno1
+@end example
+
+to get an automatically assigned IP address from the wired
network interface controller@footnote{
@c http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#n20
The name @code{eno1} is for the first on-board Ethernet controller. The
interface name for an Ethernet controller that is in the first slot of
the first PCI bus, for instance, would be @code{enp1s0}. Use
-@command{ifconfig -a} to list all the available network interfaces.}),
+@command{ifconfig -a} to list all the available network interfaces.},
or using the @command{ifconfig} command.
The system automatically loads drivers for your network interface