Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On 4/13/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > >> [...] >> You will see one default entry starting with lo0. You will get more >> entries depending >> on whether your ethernet and wireless are supported. Can you post >> what entries you >> are seeing ? >> > > lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu > 8232 index 1 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 > bge0: flags=1004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 > inet 10.7.5.235 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 10.7.255.255 > ether 0:14:22:d5:bf:e9 > iwi0: flags=1004802<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3 > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0 > ether 0:16:6f:41:d:eb > So that's wireless for you: iwi0 is your wireless interface being recognised. You seem to be having an Intel Pro/Wireless card. > I'll send this separately to you as attachment text files too. > > >> For more on Network Config and Wireless see the BeleniX FAQ: >> >> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Belenix_FAQ >> > > Ack. I'll visit there. Apparently, there are certain configuration > with wireless networks in our office. I'll investigate this separately > and write in with my findings. > Okay thanks. You may want to refer to the following page for setting up your wireless connection: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/wificonfig/ > >> There are a few things that you can try out. For eg. after creating a >> non-root user >> (see Adding and Deleting Users in the BeleniX FAQ) login as that user >> and execute >> startxfce or startkde. >> <http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Belenix_FAQ#Adding_and_Deleting_users> >> > > Here's what I did after booting off the CD-ROM: > 1. start in command prompt only mode. > 2. /usr/sbin/useradd sriram > 3. create the home directory for the user sriram at /home/sriram > > startkde and startxfce both give me the following error messages: > > /usr/bin/startxfce: /dev/msglog: cannot create > /usr/bin/startkde: /dev/msglog: cannot create > Oh. Small issue, fixable easily. I will fix this in the next release. Essentially /dev/msglog should be replaced by /dev/console in both those scripts. > >> Use Kdevelop to create and build C/C++ projects. >> > > I'll try this separately. In fact, I'll try all of the KDE apps and > send you a "testing" report :) > Thanks! > >> Check whether audio is working: >> >> Execute ls -l /dev/audio - If you see a symbolic link to sound/0 >> then the audio >> device was recognized. Get into KDE, start SuperTux and check whether >> you are >> getting the music. >> > > SuperTux works just fine. Juk was able to play an mp3, but Amarok went > silent and wouldn't play anything at all. > Hmm. MP3 support should be disabled in all media players! I will fix Juk :-| Amarok should play OGG, wav and MOD files. I will put up the MP3 and other codecs bundle for separate download from Sarovar.ORG.
This is all due to mindless licensing and patent crap. Rrgards, Moinak. >> Also as Pavan mentioned getting the hardware profile will help. >> > > I've got a lot of hardware information, I'll send these to you via mail. > > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumIDT >
