mike ??:
> I am a new Solaris user. I have a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. I loaded
> Solaris 10 on it. I downloaded and installed the wificonfig and the iwi
> drivers according to the instructions. When I try to do the ifconfig iwi0
> plumb command, it comes back with ifconfig: plumb: iwi0: NO such file or
> directory.
>
> If i try the wificonfig -i iwi0 scan command, I get wificonfig: Open iwi0
> failed. I have scanned through blogs and forums and google and can't find a
> resolution to this to configure my laptop to use my wifi card. My wifi card
> is a Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG chipset. When I do prtconf -pv and under
> the network controller section of that output, my name says 'pci8086,1020'
> which I believe that is my wireless card. Any help would be appreciated.
>
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1. make sure the driver is correctly attached.
#modinfo |grep iwi
2. run devfsadm to make sure a link to the wifi interface is created
under /dev
#devfsadm
3. do "ifconfig iwi0 plumb" and wificonfig related command again.
-Brian
