I have had problems configuring wifi on my laptop. I have an external USB wireless adaptor which uses the "rum" driver. The adaptor is a D-Link 1340. The reason I'm using dladm(1m) directly is I can't get this to work at all with NWAM! The interface "rum0" is seen, but I can't get it connect to any networks.
For the record, this is OpenSolaris 2008.11 updated to snv_110 With NWAM disabled, "dladm scan-wifi" shows two wireless networks, but there are more than two networks available, I know this because I have two and only one shows up! I can force my system to connect to a wifi network not listed by scan-wfi, after this "dladm scan-wfi" shows the network I'm connected to and another, but not one of the networks I saw before I connected. Q - How do I make "dladm scan-wifi" show me all the networks rather than just two ? Q - I'm also confused about which wifi protocols are supported, IE WEP/WPA/WPA2. Is this written down somewhere ? Q - If there are limitations, are they specific to the hardware, the driver or something else in OpenSolaris ? Q - At one point I could only connect to a WPA network if I also had WEP encryption enabled, This is odd to start with as both provide encryption. They also have different key characteristics, but there does not appear to be a way to provide different keys (as secobj's on the command line). Also odd is I can turn off WEP encryption once I have connected to the network for the first time. Q - My router had a configuration page, for WPA, it supports AES/TKIP/BOTH 64/128 bit for AES. How do I configure OpenSolaris to use AES or TKIP ? There is a bit of a clue with AES key lengths as "dladm create-secobj .." only allows 5/13 byte keys. Thanks in advance. Mark -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
