On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Stephanie Brucker <Stephanie.Brucker at sun.com> wrote: > Hi Peter - > > Thanks for reviewing the OpenSolaris System Admin Guide. I've got some > responses on your network-related questions. See below. ... >> 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.
Ah right. That's nice and clear - so the guide ought to say it like that! Thanks, -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
