Andrew Myers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble connecting to my wireless network with an
> IBM Thinkpad which has an ipw2100 Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 connection.
> I am trying to connect to a WEP encrypted network, with a 128 bit
> HEX security key. The network does not publish its SSID.
>
> I had successfully connected to this using previous releases of
> Solaris (eg. SXCE b78) however have more recently tried with OpenSolaris
> 2008.05 and also SXCE b78 "bfu'ed" with a recent ON. I have tried
> using nwam and wificonfig and neither will connect.
>
> I also tried having my network publish its SSID. On that occasion
> I could sometimes (but not always) see the network (sometimes!) when
> I issued the command wificonfig -i ipw0 scan but it still wouldn't connect.
>
> There is nothing wrong with my hardware as far as I can determine.
> I am currently connected via the same hardware using Fedora 9.
>
> Is anyone able to point me in the right direction with correcting this
> problem?
Try dladm:
dladm scan-wifi
dladm connect-wifi -e ESSID -s wep -k (yourkeyhere)
James C. McPherson
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