Jonathan,

Thanks for your feedback and clarification, please post the exact BugID 
so that other people with the same problem could get help quickly.

- Michael

Jonathan Wilner ??:
> Fixed it. Here's how:
>
> This reminded me of a bug Moinak Ghosh found in Belenix w/KDE - that 
> zenity failing made nwam fail and then DHCP. I saw the zenity error in 
> /var/adm/messages & the fact that my WLAN was listed but could not 
> connect.
>
> He indicated the popup failure result was in 
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/lib/nwamd/util.c#253
>  
> <http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/lib/nwamd/util.c#253>
>
> The root cause turned out to be with zenity & nwam. I enabled debug 
> for nwamd & saw that zenity could not pop up the 802.11 network 
> selection window due to an xauth issue.
>
> I did xhost +, restarted nwam, the window popped up, I selected my WPA 
> network, entered the key & got an IP address assigned.
>
> This made me go look at the NWAM list - where I saw the new NWAM + 
> GUI. I installed the .10 package & everything is working perfectly.
>
>
> Michael Li wrote:
>> I have a Dell D830(4G mem) with native Intel 4965(8086,4229), my home 
>> AP is wep enabled, under snv_b97, haven't met the issue you described 
>> with nwam.
>>
>> Krusty Jonez ??:
>>> Any reason with the 4965 I can't get a DHCP address when connected 
>>> to APs with any encryption? I can associate fine with either nwam or 
>>> regular network/physical to WEP or WPA APs , but cannot get assigned 
>>> any dhcp information. Configuring the ip info by hand gets me online.
>> If static IP can make you online, it should not be iwk driver issue.
>>>
>>> It can associate and get DHCP info fine from open APs.
>>>
>>> I am using a 4965 in a Thinkpad T61 with 4gb ram.
>>>
>>> This has happened since at least Nevada b93. I am now on Nevada b96 
>>> bfu'ed to 9/01 current.
>> Do you mean you have ever get Intel 4965 work OK with earlier Nevada 
>> build? Which one.
>>
>> You can try below commands:
>> 1. #svcadm disable physical:default
>> 2. #svcadm enable nwam
>> (with a popup, you can choose your AP, input wep key, if still fail 
>> to get dhcp IP, then do next )
>> 3. #svcadm restart nwam
>> (when fail again, please post the /var/adm/messages file and output 
>> of "ifconfig -a")
>>
>> - Michael
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----Original Message-----
>>> From: Fu, Zhonghui <zhonghui.fu at intel.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:07 PM
>>> To: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>> Subject: [laptop-discuss] Mercurial gate of Intel 4965 WiFi driver 
>>> is accessible to anonymous users now.
>>>
>>>
>>> All,
>>> At present, mercurial gate of Intel 4965 WiFi driver(iwkph1.5) is 
>>> opened to anonymous users. For more information how to download 
>>> source code and contribute code for this driver, please refer to 
>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/sierra/. At ths same time, the 
>>> package of this driver may be downloaded from this website as well.
>>> In this version(iwkph1.5), Calibration and IBSS(adhoc mode) features 
>>> were added. Calibration provide a mechanism by which WiFi chipset 
>>> may adjust it's TX power according current chipset temperatrue and 
>>> make sure a good communication quality all the time. Furthermore, 
>>> Calibration may adjust WiFi chipset's receiving sensitivity and make 
>>> sure not receive overmuch noise and not lose useful wireless signal. 
>>> Using IBSS mode, several wireless stations may setup a wireless 
>>> network without central AP.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Zhonghui
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>>>
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>>
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