On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Arun Tomar <tomar.arun at gmail.com> wrote: > hi! > > i was trying to create vnic over my wifi card so that i can use it with > virtualbox for further networking etc, but failed, any help is > appreciated. > > arun at opensolaris:~# dladm show-phys > LINK ? ? ? ? MEDIA ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?STATE ? ? ?SPEED ?DUPLEX ? ?DEVICE > rum0 ? ? ? ? WiFi ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? up ? ? ? ? 48 ? ? unknown ? rum0 > rge0 ? ? ? ? Ethernet ? ? ? ? ? ? unknown ? ?0 ? ? ?unknown ? rge0 > vboxnet0 ? ? Ethernet ? ? ? ? ? ? unknown ? ?0 ? ? ?unknown ? vboxnet0 > arun at opensolaris:~# dladm show-link > LINK ? ? ? ?CLASS ? ?MTU ? ?STATE ? ?OVER > rum0 ? ? ? ?phys ? ? 1500 ? up ? ? ? -- > rge0 ? ? ? ?phys ? ? 1500 ? unknown ?-- > vboxnet0 ? ?phys ? ? 1500 ? unknown ?-- > arun at opensolaris:~# dladm create-vnic -l rum0 r1 > dladm: vnic creation over rum0 failed: operation not supported >
I do not think wifi interfaces are yet supported for VNICs. See: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=337539 Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
