Hi Peter - Thanks for reviewing the OpenSolaris System Admin Guide. I've got some responses on your network-related questions. See below.
- Stephanie Brucker On 08/30/08 10:36 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: > > It says 'your laptop'. I feel that's a little too specific - readers > may interpret > that as meaning you can't use other types of computer. That's a very good point, which will be taken into consideration for the next release. > > Page 10. I wouldn't introduce svcadm before mentioning svcs. Noted. I leave book organization up to Kathy Slattery, who leads the effort for this book. > > Page 11/12 modifying NWAM. Step 5. You don't restart the service, you enable > it again. Noted. This can change for the next release. > > Page 13 'Manually configuring a wired connection'. Step 2. Should disable > come before enable? Step 3. So how could you tell that bge0 is the wired > interface? I mean, I know that the wired broadcom and ath0 the wireless > atheros, but how does a new user work that out? This will be verified for the next release. As far as telling whether an interface is wireless or wired, you need to run ifconfig -a and dladm show-link to see all interfaces. Then run dldadm show-wifi to list only the wireless interfaces. Please note that this is being upgraded for the next release of OpenSolaris. NWAM will have an icon and display showing all interfaces on the system, identifying them as wired or wireless, and indicating which interface is currently configured as the network connection for the system. Wired is the default, BTW. If you are want to learn more about upcoming network autoconfiguration for the next release of OpenSolaris, check out: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/picea/ > > Page 14/15 Manually configuring wireless. Same as above. Step 6, is that > "connect-wifi-e" or "connect-wifi -e"? Eeek. My suspicion is that the source text is connect-wifi -e, and the font we use puts a teeny space between the i and -e. Kathy, can you check this out in the source. I've snipped your comments on ZFS and NFS. The writers on those materials will most likely respond to you. Again, thanks for taking the time to give us feedback.
