Network troubleshooting

[Phil Bull]

Hi Dougie,

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 12:50 +0100, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> Cheers Phil. I think Steve has a point about where the troubleshooter is
> launched from. I'm not clear as to which link he followed but within the
> structure of the Network & Internet section, troubleshooting is clearly part
> of wireless, its not unlikely though as I did heavily change the original
> structure so we probably need to consolidate this.
> 
> An offline wireless troubleshooter with integrated diagnostics is needed. We
> could probably play around with this as there is a level of integration
> between the docs and separate programs - I mean they all return error codes,
> can we develop an automated system? Have you got your source available?

A general "Internet connection helper" (for wireless, modems etc) would
be a nice feature, but one which I think should be developed outside of
the documentation team (of course, members of the team could work on
it). It would be possible to design something like this, but I could see
it being a nightmare to work around all of the special cases that I'm
sure would be required. How about getting in touch with ubuntu-devel
about this?

The code is available from my bzr branch [1], in the welcome-centre
directory. It was intended as something different, but could easily be
modified to fit this purpose.

Thanks,

Phil

[1] - https://code.launchpad.net/~philbull/+junk/ubuntu-doc-dev

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