This is certainly unusual alright... So if you edit the file:
/usr/share/setup-tool-backends/scripts/network.pl and then replace all instances of show-link with show-dev, does everything work...? Thanks, Darren. Ross Becker wrote: > 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:swalker at opensolaris.org] > 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? >> > >
