On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:41:19AM -0700, Bla Sgheps wrote:
> Hi all. I've installed opensolaris, and the system detected automatically my 
> Atheros Netgear wifi card. The problem is that the system took suddenly the 
> interface down,

That generally happens because there was a glitch from the network driver.

> saying this:
> 
> "Took interface ath0 down"

That's NWAM (the service that brought your network up in the first place)
reporting the glitch.

> And until I click the OK button, the interface doesn't came up. There is a 
> way to fix this or to make the interface came up automatically?

The NWAM UI which comes with opensolaris 2008.05 had some limitations
and flat-out warts, and that's one of them: the daemon that manages the
interface configuration uses its state machine thread (which also performs
most of the network configuration) to display the dialog box, and thus
that thread is stopped until the box is dismissed.

NWAM phase 0.5 introduced some significant improvements to the UI in
particular, including a resolution for the dialog box problem you're
seeing.  Those updates were integrated into builds 99 and 100, so if
you 'pkg image-update' to the latest opensolaris release you'll see
those improvements.

-renee
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