An update. I just booted my Dell d810 with the OpenSolaris 2008.05 live cd and successfully connected to this same wireless network with nwam.
At least that rules out the network as a problem... Searching the net I also found this: http://scottf.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/opensolaris-network-wtf/ My laptop is also an IBM Thinkpad R40 so it seems I am not the only one with issues? Does nwam, wificonfig and dladm log anything that might help me debug the issue? Andrew 2008/6/25 Andrew Myers <am2605 at gmail.com>: > Hi Cecilia, > > I think your'e referring to Fn-F5 on my laptop keyboard which turns > the wireless on and off? > > This seems to have no effect when running OpenSolaris. > > When I booted my system, the "antenna" light on the laptop which > indicates the radio is active was not lit up. The only way I could > get it to light up was to either go into Administration -> Network and > enable the wireless device in there, or to enable nwam. > > Once the light was lit up, commands like: > > wificonfig -i ipw0 scan > > and > > dladm scan-wifi > > would show my AP so I am pretty confident that it was operating in some sense. > > Andrew. > > 2008/6/24 Cecilia Hu <Cecilia.Hu at sun.com>: >> Andrew, >> >> Is there any chance that WiFi switch/toggle is touched, as you mentioned >> below that "RADIO is OFF"? If radio is off, all the description below >> make sense. >> >> -Cecilia >> >> Andrew Myers Wrote: >>> >>> Unfortunately I've had exactly the same results with svn_91. >>> >>> To summarise: >>> >>> My network uses WEP encryption with a 128 bit Hex key. >>> >>> With nwam - see my network but does not connect when I enter my WEP key >>> >>> With wificonfig - refuses to connect with error: >>> >>> wificonfig: failed to connect to profile 'homenet' >>> >>> The closest I've gotten is using dladm - it connects (I think...at least >>> it tells me it's connected, but I can't see it on my router's status page). >>> DHCP does not appear to work. I have tried setting a static IP address, >>> and taking the steps below (editing resolve.conf and nsswitch.conf and >>> running the svcadm restart command as below) however I cannot connect to any >>> internet sites. >>> >>> What's really frustrating is that this hardware has worked before with the >>> same network settings on previous opensolaris builds (b57 and b78), but it >>> seems something has happened that's caused it to no longer work. >>> >>> James C. McPherson wrote: >>>> >>>> Andrew Myers wrote: >>>>> >>>>> My AP is service DHCP. >>>>> >>>>> When I issued that command it timed out (I replaced iwk0 with ipw0 for >>>>> my system). I then tried setting a static IP but couldn't connect to any >>>>> internet sites (I expect I also need to set the DNS server somewhere?) >>>> >>>> Ah, yes - you'll need to make sure your /etc/resolv.conf has your >>>> nameserver(s) listed, and that /etc/nsswitch.conf has >>>> >>>> hosts: files dns >>>> >>>> then run "svcadm restart dns/client name-service-cache" >>>> >>>>> I decided a reboot might be worth a try, but now it won't start up (I'm >>>>> using the OpenSolaris 2008.05 live CD at the moment). >>>>> >>>>> It just keeps giving the message: >>>>> >>>>> WARNING: ipw0: ipw: RADIO is OFF >>>> >>>> In my experience that means I've generally managed to toggle the >>>> wifi activation button. >>>> >>>>> I think I'll download and install the latest SXCE build and see how I >>>>> get on with that. >>>> >>>> I hope it'll be better - the latest SXCE is build 90 iirc, but >>>> osol2008.05 is based on build86 - there's been change :-) >>>> >>>>> Please take this is constructive criticism rather than me being a >>>>> troll...but from my observations the wireless support in OpenSolaris has a >>>>> fair way to go to catch up with some of the Linux distros. I'm happy to >>>>> assist with its improvement if I can. >>>> >>>> nowurries at all (and you're a loooong way from trolling). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> James C. McPherson >>>> -- >>>> Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter >>>> http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog >>>> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp >>>> Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> laptop-discuss mailing list >>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >> >> -- >> >> Cecilia.Hu at Sun.COM >> +86-10-62673947 >> >
