Try using dladm instead of wificonfig.

dladm connect-wifi [-e _essid_] [-i _bssid_] [-k _key_,...] [-s wep]
                        [-a open|shared] [-b bss|ibss] [-c] [-m a|b|g]
                        [-T _time_] [_name_]

More here:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/623/materials/manpages/dladm-1m/;jsessionid=EFFE53B1471DC411D867C32BD028B9DF


On 10/12/07, Dan Anderson <opensolaris at drydog.com> wrote:
>
> I just installed Solaris Express snv_70b tonight (with SUNWlanu 11.11).  
> However,
> wifi is still broken.  I still have a Thinkpad T40 with an Atheros AR5112
> chip on a minipci card (prtconf gives name 'pci1014,57e'. Device ath0 is
> plumbed.  Solaris  prompts me for the wireless WPA password, and this is
> where it fails.
>
> Next, I try using wificonfig. And I get this error--it doesn't like the
> psk= parameter:
> $ wificonfig createprofile hometest essid="moley wireless" \
> psk="ball is like a doll, by the sea side."
> wificonfig: unrecognized parameter 'psk'
>
> QUESTION 1: How do I specify the key (PSK) with wificonfig?
>
> QUESTION 2: How do I specify debug output when I can go to the next step
> (wificonfig -i ath0 connect hometest)?
>
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