Dan Anderson wrote: > nwam still broken on OpenSolaris 2008.11 release candidate snv_101a_rc1b. > At least it's not regression--nwam has never worked for me :-). > > Here's some past history: > 1. First I was told my wifi chipset wasn't supported (Atheros). > 2. Next, when it was supported, I was told WPA encryption wasn't supported. > 3. Next, when WPA was supported, I was told my pass phrase was too long (it's > 38 characters). > > That's were I stand today. It still doesn't work with the latest release > candidate. > > Wifi works find with Windows XP on the same laptop. > It even works with a hand-crafted shell script that uses dladm(1M). > But, not with NWAM! > > The problems are: > 1. It asks for a "username". There is no username on my wifi network. I > just type in the passphrase for my ESSID. > 2. I try a fake username "foobar" and I get this message after waiting a > minute: > Automatic Network Configuration Daer > Failed to initiate connection to wireless network. > > I'm not here just to complain--I really would like for NWAM to work someday. > I'll run debug scripts or turn on logging--just tell me what I can do! > > Details at OpenSolaris bug 4677: > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4677 > Yeah I got that too, I used user:password and it worked with my 5416 but not after having to install the driver over (Because the PCI ID isn't supported), ifconfig up/down a few times, restarting SMF services, and even a reboot (After driver install it won't do what I want it to).
James
