Hi,
I am a solaris newbie, although I have used various flavors of *nix for quite a
number of years. I am currently working with a fresh install of NCP 3.0 (alpha
5) on a system with a linksys WMP55AG wireless card. Sure, it is not a vanilla
OSol distro, but I don't think my issues have anything to due with the gnu side
of the world. I have tried posting the same query in their help forums, but
have not yet gotten a resolution, which is why I am broadening my scope.
The install seemed to detect the hardware, and after creating a profile with
wificonfig ('wificonfig createprofile profilename ...', then manually
connecting ('wificonfig connect profilename') and bringing up the interface
('ifconfig ath0 dhcp'), I have access to the wireless network. This all seems
to work as it should.
After rebooting, however, I get the message 'Failed to configure IPv4 DHCP
interface(s): ath0', and I have to wait for the connection to time out before I
get a system prompt. At this point I can manually reconnect (using the
'wificonfig connect ...' alone ; the ifconfig is not required). I think this
means I need to find a way to add wificonfig in to the startup sequence (using
the svcadm command ?), but if so I have found no concrete way to accomplish
this. If not, can anyone help me troubleshoot ? /var/log/messages doesn't
report anything useful in terms of error messages other than "WARNING: init:
cryptoregister_provider(arcfour)failed (0x50)" followed by a couple of similar
messages from aes _init. These are reported just before the DHCP error, but
they are all tagged as warnings, not errors.
I tried adding the hostname into /etc/hostname.ath0 (via a single line - 'inet
hostname'), and also tried touching /etc/dhcp.ath0. I have tinkered a bit past
this, but nothing concrete enough to justify explanation. Mostly just flailing
in hopes of accidentally hitting the answer.
This machine is intended to sit in a corner in the basement, and I don't plan
to log on to it locally (ever) once I get it set up, so I am looking for a
nice, clean way to have wireless start by default on reboot. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks for any help.
Erik
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