I'll give that a try! I never ran the installer, just extracted the files to a temp place and made some assigns, copied and checked the config file and then ran the startup command.
I think I prefer the stack not to have a gui, maybe a prefs editior for those less experienced.
That's what I was (and still am) uncertain about.
The current configuration process works something like this:
1) You run the installer, which copies everything to the boot volume
2) You restart your system, so the S:Network-Startup will get invoked
3) You pick one of the network interface configuration files in SYS:Storage/NetInterfaces which matches the hardware you have installed
4) If that works out, you move that configuration file into DEVS:NetInterfaces
5) The next time you reboot your system, the network should come up automatically, configured using DHCP
If you don't know much about how TCP/IP networking actually does work out, and what the configuration options do, then this approach should still work. You do not need expert knowledge to get going. It would be easier, however, if Roadshow could suggest the network interface driver you ought to use, if you don't know it already (which brings further complications: what if you have two Ariadne cards installed? then you'd need to make copies of the Ariadne config files and change the unit number in one of them).
Assuming that there was a GUI for Roadshow, how would the setup process look like? My guess is that it would not be more complicated, and probably not much simpler either.
If you were to venture beyond the simple setup process, I'd say you would have to have sufficient experience to set up your network, picking the right IPv4 address, the right default route, the right DNS server. If you know how to do that, you won't be deterred by having to use a text editor to make these changes to the Roadshow configuration files, and maybe open the shell and use the Roadshow shell commands that may be required.
Chances are that you set up your network once and rarely if ever make changes to the configuration.
And the same would be true if there was a GUI. A GUI which would likely be used once only, and which would take quite some effort to get it right. I have tried to get this off the ground four times, and it always came to nothing. Part of me wants to see this as the Universe giving me a hint that I ought to have smartened up after the second attempt.
