Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-10 Thread Claudia Hildebrandt
oooh, how embarassing, I simply forgot that :-[ and doing it right, it works of course. claudia Alan Coopersmith wrote: Claudia Hildebrandt wrote: there is an alternate way ;o) as always, because scanpci does give you a result in any case, as in my case on the laptop: legolas:~$ /usr/X11/bi

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Claudia Hildebrandt wrote: > there is an alternate way ;o) as always, because scanpci does give you a > result in any case, as in my case on the laptop: > legolas:~$ /usr/X11/bin/scanpci > No PCI devices found It needs to be run with root privileges, so try: pfexec /usr/X11/bin/scanpci or

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Claudia Hildebrandt
there is an alternate way ;o) as always, because scanpci does give you a result in any case, as in my case on the laptop: legolas:~$ /usr/X11/bin/scanpci No PCI devices found legolas:~$ alernately run: # prtconf -pv and check the ethernet controller section you are going to find something like

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread John Brewer
What is the output of /usr/X11/bin/scanpci You can try adding the vendor id and device id to: /etc/driver_aliases sys-unconfig -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
Alternatively, you can try running Applications -> System Tools -> Device Driver Utility to see what hardware is missing drivers on your system. Claudia Hildebrandt wrote: It is also possible, that your network interface is not recognized by opensol. I have an acer aspire X1700 and I experienc

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Alex
Ha, I guess I shouldn't assume things as much. I used to have this problem alot while running <110. It did it again and I assumed that is what the problem was. Turns out this time it was bad network cable.. sigh. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Claudia Hildebrandt
It is also possible, that your network interface is not recognized by opensol. I have an acer aspire X1700 and I experienced that the onboard chip ( RTL 8211B) is not recognized - so I had to install a e1000g0 ( Intel ) network card. Please can you send the output of #ifconfig -a ", please. O

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
I've found that I sometimes have to perform a "pfexec svcadm restart nwam" to get it to work, though I haven't had to do that since build 110. Claudia Hildebrandt wrote: Alex, is your nwam service running ( nwam stands for network automat.. something and enables your network interfaces autom

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Claudia Hildebrandt
Alex, is your nwam service running ( nwam stands for network automat.. something and enables your network interfaces automatically ). Check it with svcs -av |grep nwam claudia On 04/09/09 19:45, Alex wrote: I have an acer aspire one laptop running OpenSolaris 111 that I connect to the int

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread James Carlson
Alex writes: > I have an acer aspire one laptop running OpenSolaris 111 that I connect to > the internet via ethernet at work. Is there anyway to re-request a DHCP > lease via the network autoconf daemon? The system does that all on its own. The DHCP client will attempt to get a lease continuo

[osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread Alex
I have an acer aspire one laptop running OpenSolaris 111 that I connect to the internet via ethernet at work. Is there anyway to re-request a DHCP lease via the network autoconf daemon? For example, i have an ip of 0.0.0.0 without a cable plugged in, I plug an Ethernet cable and it remains at