Sorry, I'm getting this through email, and responding via email, with the list CC:d. I talked about CLI-GUI expectations as your original comment indicated you thought it wouldn't work without the interfaces plumbed.
On to your latest question; dladm show-link returns nothing at all. dladm show-ether returns the following: LINK PTYPE STATE AUTO SPEED-DUPLEX PAUSE e1000g0 current up yes 1G-f none e1000g1 current unknown yes 0M-h none dladm show-dev also shows my Ethernet devices. Is something hosed with my link config? --Ross -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Walker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:01 PM To: Ross Becker Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] network-admin broken in Opensolaris 2008.05? Sorry, what I meant to say was, that the driver aliases have been setup for them. I'm running build 95 here and network-admin works just fine whether the interfaces are plumbed or not. Driver aliases have been setup for them. Yet, I've also used nwam in the past so maybe that's why. However, since you mentioned you tried it with plumbing the interfaces,that means that the driver aliases are setup properly (or should be anyway). I'm not sure why you're directing questions about gui/cli user expectations for the networking tool to me. I'm just trying to help... What does "pfexec dladm show-link" tell you? Ross Becker wrote: > Shawn, > I've tried network-admin without my interfaces plumbed, with them > plumbed and unconfigured, and with them plumbed and fully configured. I > get no difference in behaviour. The "network-admin" tool comes up with an > empty interface list and no "add" button. I am running the tool as root. > It also seems to me that the tool should be able to handle unplumbed > interfaces. How else do you expect end-users to configure new interfaces? > Use a command-line first and then use a GUI tool? That would be > completely unintuitive to me. > > > --Ross > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Walker [mailto:swalker at opensolaris.org] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:36 AM > To: Ross Becker > Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] network-admin broken in Opensolaris > 2008.05? > > Ross Becker wrote: >> Folks, >> I just recently went through setting up an Opensolaris 2008.05 > system. NWAM wouldn't work correctly in my environment (I needed dhcp > where the hostname was transmitted back to the dhcp server). After > disabling the network/physical:nwam service and enabling the > network/physical:default service, I attempted to use the network-admin GUI > to do basic configuration of my interfaces. Unfortunately, the tool > showed up with no interfaces listed, and no "add" button for adding an > interface, as is shown in all the documentation screenshots. I wasn't > able convince the tool to work at all. >> Is this known behaviour? > > I think Network admin can only help you with interfaces that exist > already. > > So, in other words, you need to ensure that the interfaces are plumbed > first. > > Does ifconfig -a show your network interface? > -- Shawn Walker
