so, taken all together, it seems you've been looking at the wired interface, which works.
the livecd has a "driver tools" or something like that. Does it display a driver for the atheros card? If not, I downloaded the one from opensolaris for my lenovo T60p, and that works fine. Michael Brian Wong wrote: > 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 "svcadm restart nwam" should work just as well, in my experience. > >> >>> 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 -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
