That sounds like its expected NWAM (Network Auto Magic) behaviour. NWAM policy prefers wired links over wireless and configures wireless only if no wired is available.
-Geeta >-----Original Message----- >From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:23 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Krishna, Geetanjali >Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Wireless 4965 support > >"Krishna, Geetanjali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The driver should work correctly on snv_78+ builds. Ver 1.1 has some bug >> fixes so try using that. If you still see problems please post details >> of the operations that did not work correctly so that we can investigate >> furthur. > >Hi, I have been able to use it on the new SchilliX-0.6.6 (based on nv86) >and on SXCE 85 after I installed the driver from nv86. > >The speed seems to be OK > >I however see a problem with SchilliX autoconfiguration: > > The "iwk" driver as well as the "iwi" driver do no longer > auto-connect to an unencrypted base station if you call > > ifconfig -a plumb > >It seems that this is a general change..... and the wireless framework is >now less useful than before. Before (e.g. with build 62) it was possible to >just call: > >ifconfig -a plumb > >then call ifconfig -a to list all network interfaces and then call > >for i in $list; do > ifconfig $i dhcp >done > >to get a working network connection. This now only works for wireful >metwork >interfaces. > >Jörg > >-- > EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 >Berlin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: >http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ >ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
