> Hi John, > > I'll try to clarify what was going on (as far as I > can guess).
Hi, Albert .. I appreciate the time you and others are taking over this, really. > > # update_drv -a -i '"pciex168c,XXXX"' arn > > > > .. which I found here .. > > > > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+la > ptop/arn > > > > The driver as shipped in OpenSolaris already > recognises these two IDs: > "pciex168c,2a" "pciex168c,2b" so any update_drv > should be superfluous > unless you have a different ID; you may have had to > modload the driver or > reboot though. When I first installed OpenSolaris, that driver wasn't present, though. > You reinstalled the driver by using 'pkg remove > SUNWarn; pkg install > SUNWarn', I hope? Yep. :) > > However, there I was, happy to have WiFi back on my > netbook, and was > > typing away, when suddenly the 'workspace changer' > crashed ... then the > > 'network monitor' crashed ... then the bottom > 'taskbar' crashed ... > > > > I selected the OpenSolaris icon to do a reboot, > when the entire OS just > > died, and I got the 'Toshiba' logo as it rebooted. > That's a fairly unusual and catastrophic failure. > It's easy to blame > hardware for this one (something like your hard disk > disappearing out from > under you would produce similar symptoms) although > driver could be at > fault. Does your /var/adm/messages go back to that > incident? It goes back to 15 February, but as it's a laptop and I'm shutting it down and booting it up regularly, I don't recall which instance of 'SunOS' in /var/adm/messages equates to the boot.. > You said you were "typing away" earlier, not closing > the lid, so is this a > separate incident? Yes, there was the occasion on (IRIC) Thursday when my WiFi stopped working, and then this morning when the netbook just died on me, and rebooted. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
