Many thanks it works now, I've found a guide telling how to enable wifi using 
dladm, it worked even without symlinks unfortunately it was from some external 
blog, all information about wifi on opensolaris.org/com is useless.

Marek Aaron Sapota

On Sunday 07 December 2008 16:23:09 Ignacio Marambio Cat?n wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:02 PM,  <projects.gg.aaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've recently installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my laptop, but I can't get
> > networking to work. My wifi card is an intel 3945 card and from
> > information that I've found I assume that it can work with wpa2 encrypted
> > network. When I do wificonfig scan it finds my network, but says it is
> > wep encrypted, not wpa2. I've tried to do wpa_supplicant -i wpi0 and then
> > add a profile to wificonfig but it says the only supported encryption
> > methods are wep and none. I have a clean OpenSolaris 2008.11 system (only
> > thing that I've changed is I've symlinked openssl-0.9.8 to openssl-0.9.7
> > and something like this with another package so wpa_supplicant won't
> > complain about missing libraries). What should I do to get wpa2 to work?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Marek Aaron Sapota
>
> wificonfig?
> you should be using dladm instead i think
> anyway, nwam should auto configure those things for you if it is enabled
> nacho at saturn:~$ pfexec /usr/sbin/dladm scan-wifi
> LINK       ESSID               BSSID/IBSSID      SEC    STRENGTH   MODE  
> SPEED wpi0       dd-wrt              0:16:b6:3d:1b:fa  wpa    excellent  g 
>     54Mb wpi0       linksys             0:13:10:86:60:ff  wep    very weak 
> g      54Mb
>
> the dladm man page has examples if you need them
>
> nacho
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