Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: This was a problem 15 years ago when I left the OS group and I see it's still a problem today. You OS guys need to understand that most people experience desktop systems through the GUI. If the GUI for *your* feature doesn't work, it's the same as your feature not

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: Ghee Teo wrote: The new network admin GUI is all integrated to work to its full functionality in snv 100 as far as I heard. What exactly does that mean? The perfectly functional version in older releases was replaced with a new partially functional version? No.

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread Bill Shannon
James Carlson wrote: Is there still a problem here in the networking component itself (other than the GUI)? If so, I'd like to help solve it. No, after configuring it all by hand, networking is working fine. The question is, why didn't the GUI find the interface? Is it something about this

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread Bill Shannon
James Carlson wrote: I am *so* sorry I upgrade to snv_98... I don't see how that relates to the previous poster's note about snv_100. I had snv_86 working quite well on two machines and I was very happy with it. Since upgrading those machines and installing snv_98 on another machine (the

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: James Carlson wrote: Is there still a problem here in the networking component itself (other than the GUI)? If so, I'd like to help solve it. No, after configuring it all by hand, networking is working fine. The question is, why didn't the GUI find the interface? Is

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread Bill Shannon
James Carlson wrote: Looking through the truss output on /usr/bin/network-admin, it appears that it invokes '/usr/sbin/dladm show-link -p'. I think that means it may have been broken by the integration of CR 6722523 in snv_96. I don't know why that hasn't been addressed in GNOME. (The

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-02 Thread Ghee Teo
The new network admin GUI is all integrated to work to its full functionality in snv 100 as far as I heard. -Ghee Bill Shannon wrote: I installed 2008.05 on a new machine, upgraded to snv_98. Now I'm trying to convert to static IP. I disabled svc:/network/physical:nwam and enabled

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-02 Thread Miguel Da Silva - URI
Bill Shannon escribió: I installed 2008.05 on a new machine, upgraded to snv_98. Now I'm trying to convert to static IP. I disabled svc:/network/physical:nwam and enabled svc:/network/physical:default. I went to System Administration Network. It doesn't show *any* interfaces. Sigh.

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-02 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: I disabled svc:/network/physical:nwam and enabled svc:/network/physical:default. I went to System Administration Network. It doesn't show *any* interfaces. I'd recommend contacting the Desktop community. They're the ones who support the GUI bits. I can't say I use

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-02 Thread Bill Shannon
James Carlson wrote: Bill Shannon writes: I disabled svc:/network/physical:nwam and enabled svc:/network/physical:default. I went to System Administration Network. It doesn't show *any* interfaces. I'd recommend contacting the Desktop community. They're the ones who support the GUI

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-02 Thread Bill Shannon
Ghee Teo wrote: The new network admin GUI is all integrated to work to its full functionality in snv 100 as far as I heard. What exactly does that mean? The perfectly functional version in older releases was replaced with a new partially functional version? I am *so* sorry I upgrade to

[osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Shannon
I installed 2008.05 on a new machine, upgraded to snv_98. Now I'm trying to convert to static IP. I disabled svc:/network/physical:nwam and enabled svc:/network/physical:default. I went to System Administration Network. It doesn't show *any* interfaces. Sigh. I rebooted. No help. I

[osol-discuss] Network Configuration Problem

2006-04-11 Thread Vincenzo Sciarra
I have a problem with my network. I'll paste below : ** # host google.com google.com has address 64.233.167.99 # ping 64.233.167.99 64.233.167.99 is alive # ping google.com ping: unknown host google.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Configuration Problem

2006-04-11 Thread Alan Hargreaves
Vincenzo Sciarra wrote: I have a problem with my network. I'll paste below : ** # host google.com google.com has address 64.233.167.99 # ping 64.233.167.99 64.233.167.99 is alive # ping google.com ping: