Hi Daniel,
thanks for the update but these issues have been dealt with a while back!!
Basically Moinak suggested I disable nwam using svcadm and that did the trick
sort of although very messy.....
It means that I need to boot the machine, disable nwam, use wificonfig connect
[profile], run ipconfig [interface] dhcp; and then it will work!!!
The issue with my wireless is that I'm connecting to a Cisco 857W router with
ESSID broadcasting disabled and WEP based encryption (my card can't take WPA as
it's too old).
Upon reboot though disabling nwam causes the network interfaces to not detect
apart from the loopback meaning that I need to re-enable nwam either before
shutdown or on restart then disable it again. So messy I know but I haven't
figured out any other way yet!
With regards to GRUB, since I always dual boot minimum. Solaris stores it's
version of GRUB in the PBR while Linux stores in in the MBR on x86 machines
meaning that I need to chainload the GRUB instance of Solaris from Linux GRUB
in the MBR. This infact creates a really cool dual GRUB boot scenario but it
does work quite well.
Kaya
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Escasa <[email protected]>
To: belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org
Sent: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 3:12 pm
Subject: Re: [belenix-discuss] New BeleniX user!! :-) - almost a blog...
Gosh, over six weeks old and nor reply? Or maybe someone replied to
Sender (samankaya?) ? Anyway...
Sabi ni Kaya noong Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4
:06 AM:
> I couldn't seem to login to my wireless network though?? I used the same
syntax as with SXCE and I manage to connect to my access point briefly, after
trying to get an IP address with DHCP the machine seems to disassociate itself.
This may just be a case of updating the packages but for reference sake:
>
> #ifconfig -a {list all interfaces - IP addresses at 0.0.0.0 for rtls0 and
iwi0}
> #wificonfig createprofile Cisco essid=SSID wepkey1=WEP_KEY_HEX_40_BIT
wepkeyindex=1 authmode=opensystem encryption=wep
> {create a profile called Cisco with 40 bit wep key and open system
authentication as opposed to shared wep key}
> #ifconfig rtls0 down {take the wired ethernet interface down}
> #ifconfig iwi0 up {bring my wireless NIC up}
> #ifocnfig iwi0 dhcp {tell the wireless card to use dhcp for acquiring layer 3
information}
> #ifconfig -a {should show IP given by dhcp but is still 0.0.0.0}
>
> I used:
> #wificonfig -i iwi0 showstatus
> to verify the wireless was connected initially and it was but after running
ifconfig iwi0 dhcp it disassociated from the access-point??
I *may* have been in a similar situation. From my blog:
http://descasa.i.ph/blogs/descasa/2009/01/08/wifi-opensolaris-and-the-thinkpad-sl400/
<quote>
One issue I was having with my WiFi was that on bootup, it connected
to my NETGEAR wireless access point (AP) but I wasn?t connecting to
any Internet sites. When I noticed this, the first thing I did on
startup was open up a terminal window and ping google.com. I8
0d get an
unknown host error, which means something with the DNS. I?d then bring
up inetmenu and apply DHCP on iwh0, my wireless interface. That
worked, but it was a pain because my wireless should go up without
manual intervention.
So, I moved around the lines in my /etc/driver_aliases so that iwh
?pciex8086,4237? would be the first line, and so far that seems to
have done it.
</quote>
You might look into that and see if that solves your problem.
> Ah one other thing is that there is a non-standard implementation of GRUB on
this machine for the bootloader. I can't find /boot/grub/menu.lst as I need to
chain load KUbuntu Linux of which I've created a 10GB partition just while I
sort out the teething problems with Solaris.
It's in /rpool/boot/grub -- of course, you have to pfexec in order to
edit this, because the entire directory belongs to root. But you knew
that :)
--
Daniel O. Escasa
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