Ken, I agree with you completely. After installing latest 2008.11 RC1 build I found that network tools have been redesigned.Unfortunately nwam became unusable if you have Wifi which does not broadcast SSID and uses WPA PSK encryption - which is my case.
When you choose the option to join hidden network from menu it asks you for SSID no way to enter key phrase, encryption method, etc... I thought nwam will figure out and pop-up appropriate dialog later. Unfortunately nwam simply reported that it is unable to connect to SSID. To resolve this issue I created secure object with dladm and after that nwm made it to connect to my AP but no luck with dhcp settings for adapter... I checked /etc/nwam/llp and there was clearly stated ath0 dhcp. So one more terminal iteration and DHCP was working on ath0. So my question is What is the use of those new fancy (windows like) tools ? Except that those tools constantly bloat UI with useless information about new wifi networks found ? This constant popping info that new wifi network is found is especially irritating and useless it even makes use of pop-up menu very hard since it dynamically changes list of wifi entries on menu and it is quite common to miss command because menu grew or shrink while you were clicking the option. My suggestions are: 1. please make nwam works with WPA PSK and hidden SIDS 2. do not list visible wifi networks in menu and make option for disabling popups regards Mirko -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
