Michael Schuster wrote: > redirecting to networking-discuss ... > > I have a few questions (the answers to (that was for dcb ;-)) which > might help narrowing this down: > > Brian Wong wrote: >> I'm trying to run the live CD (fresh download of 2008.05) on an Asus >> F9DC laptop. Everything works except the networking, which IS an >> Atheros, although I don't know which one. I can plumb rge0 but nwam >> doesn't notice it > > how do you know that? # ifconfig rge0 plumb # svcadm disable nwam # svcadm enable nwam
> >> and moreover I can't seem to ifconfig rge0 dhcp start >> either. The fact that the driver attaches and plumbs suggests that I'm >> doing something wrong, but on the other hand this Just Works for so many >> other configs that I'm wondering what I missed... -- > > you could run "pfexec scanpci" and post the lines relevant to atheros > here. That'd probably help identify the card you have. pci bus 0x007 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x168c device 0x001c Atheros Communications, Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter > > "pfexec dladm scan-wifi" might also prove worthwhile. null output. > > Have you tried to assigning a static IP address to the IF for the fun > of it (you need to switch to network:physical from nwam for that to > work properly)? Uh, silly me. rge0 is the wired ethernet. And ifconfig rge0 dhcp start works when the wire is plugged in, oddly enough :-) > Do you know whether the thing at the other end can actually see > (hear?) your card? has it ever worked before? Wireless works in Vista, but the point is to rid ourselves of Vista. This is the first time I've ever tried this machine in Solaris. blw _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
