* Dan Anderson (opensolaris at drydog.com) 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
I'd start with trying the binary attached to that bug and then updating the bug report. The binary became available 'today' it seems and so it's not in any RC build of OpenSolaris 2008.11 (and probably won't be until someone tests it and verifies that it actually addresses the bug, which needs to happen very *soon* if it's going to make the final spins). Also, for nwam specific issues nwam-discuss at opensolaris.org is a much better place to send questions to. Cheers, -- Glenn
