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

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