Bish, I have been using OpenSolaris on my home machine in similar scenario but, hve not faced such a problem (despite the link being down).
Were you able get to the to command prompt ? Regards, Sanjeev. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 01:05:15PM +0530, USM Bish wrote: > Yesterday, while booting into my OpenSolaris 2008.5 I faced a major problem. > Quite unknown to me, the Airtel broadband was down in the evening. The > connection from my laptop to my WiFI router was quite fine, the problems > were after that (since the cut off was at the backend). > > However, during boot, I got a warning (I forgot the exact message) to the > effect that nexthop could not be established, and then the box just hung up > without coming to the GUI boot up screen itself. I could see my WiFI light > on (probably indicating that local link to my wifi was established), but then > I could not proceed further. Should'nt the normal log in process continue > even if there is some problem with the Internet link ? > > I switched off my router totally, and pressed the reset of the laptop. This > time, the nwam did not intervene, and I could log in. Ofcourse, obviously > no internet. > > Just kind of wondering if anybody else has faced such an issue with nwam. > Or is it on my machine only. Is it worthwhile filing a bug report ? > > Bish > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54
