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From: Larry Lindstrom on 9 Jan 2010 17:40
On Jan 8, 1:55 pm, Casper H.S. Dik <Casper....(a)Sun.COM> wrote:
> Larry Lindstrom <larryl_tu...(a)hotmail.com> writes:
> >   "ifconig -a plumb" ran without displaying anything, and having no
> >effect on the output of "ifconfig -a", which shows only 2 entries,
> >IPV4 and IPV6 for lo0.
>
> That should be what I expect.
>
> >   "ifconfig rtls plumb" displays
>
>    "ifconfig rtls0 plumb" displays
>
>    rtls*0*

Thanks again Casper:

That command results in rtls0 showing up in ifconcfig -a.

But I'm still having problems.

Please understand, I'm a programmer, and not a skilled sys admin.

I'm aware of the ifconfig command, and occasionally find myself
using it. But my first choice is to use a GUI interface that once had
a button on the menu bar.

That button was displaying after I installed OpenSolaris, but is no
longer there for some reason.

That's OK, Google pointed me to a site that suggested I try running
the following:

ifconfig rtls0 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

That seems to configure the interface, and I can now sftp from my
OpenSolaris system to my Solaris system.

I then went about setting up the obligatory /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/
defaultrouter and copy /etc/nsswitch.dns to /etc/nsswitch.conf.

But I can't connect to the internet.

I sftp to copy these files to my OpenSolaris system from the
Solaris system I'm using to post these questions, and ran a diff to
see if any of these files had a typo.

Resolv.conf and defaultrouter are identical, and the OpenSolaris
nsswitch.conf has two references to mdns that the Solaris
nsswitch.conf doesn't have.

I try commenting out the mdns references in nsswitch.conf, to see
what will happen, but to no effect.

I can connect over the LAN to the Solaris system defined in /etc/
hosts. I've always believed that if you can do that, and you have
your resolv.conf, defaultrouter and nsswitch.conf right, you're
connected.

Do I need to re-start OpenSolaris? That doesn't sound right, but
I'll try it.

ifconfig -a

rtls0 is no longer there! Just lo0 for IPv4 and IPv6.

This is the same CD I burned months ago to setup OpenSolaris on
this PC. I did use that GUI to setup the network. I didn't have
trouble like I'm having now.

I've been dreaming about getting back to Solaris after many years
toiling under the shadow of Windows development. Solaris has always
been so easy to install and so sweet to work with.

So here are three questions. How do I get the rtls driver to
"stick" through re-boots? How do I connect to the Internet? How do I
get that button that brings up the network configuration GUI to re-
appear on the menu bar?

Thanks
Larry


From: Paul Gress on 9 Jan 2010 19:41
On 01/ 9/10 05:40 PM, Larry Lindstrom wrote:

>
> So here are three questions. How do I get the rtls driver to
> "stick" through re-boots? How do I connect to the Internet? How do I
> get that button that brings up the network configuration GUI to re-
> appear on the menu bar?
>
> Thanks
> Larry
>
>

It seems like your trying to do things the old Solaris way. It can
still work in Opensolaris.

But lets see if we can get this done an easier way. First what release
of Opensolaris are you using?

Besides that, it sounds like NWAM is turned off. NWAM stands for
"NetWork AutoMagic". It automatically configures your networking.

It sounds as if yours is turned off.

If you enter the command:

$ svcs -a |grep network/physical
disabled 12:37:06 svc:/network/physical:default
online 12:37:07 svc:/network/physical:nwam
$

Do you get what I get?

If not, NWAM is disabled. To enable it enter the following two commands:

# svcadm disable network/physical:default
# svcadm enable network/physical:nwam

Basically that turns off the old Solaris 10 or earlier networking and
turns on the new Opensolaris networking.

Your networking should now configure automatically, whether it's wired
or WIFI and will continue to do so through reboots.

Paul
From: Paul Gress on 9 Jan 2010 19:50
On 01/ 9/10 07:41 PM, Paul Gress wrote:
> On 01/ 9/10 05:40 PM, Larry Lindstrom wrote:
>
>>
>> So here are three questions. How do I get the rtls driver to
>> "stick" through re-boots? How do I connect to the Internet? How do I
>> get that button that brings up the network configuration GUI to re-
>> appear on the menu bar?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Larry
>>
>>
>
> It seems like your trying to do things the old Solaris way. It can still
> work in Opensolaris.
>
> But lets see if we can get this done an easier way. First what release
> of Opensolaris are you using?
>
> Besides that, it sounds like NWAM is turned off. NWAM stands for
> "NetWork AutoMagic". It automatically configures your networking.
>
> It sounds as if yours is turned off.
>
> If you enter the command:
>
> $ svcs -a |grep network/physical
> disabled 12:37:06 svc:/network/physical:default
> online 12:37:07 svc:/network/physical:nwam
> $
>
> Do you get what I get?
>
> If not, NWAM is disabled. To enable it enter the following two commands:
>
> # svcadm disable network/physical:default
> # svcadm enable network/physical:nwam
>
> Basically that turns off the old Solaris 10 or earlier networking and
> turns on the new Opensolaris networking.
>
> Your networking should now configure automatically, whether it's wired
> or WIFI and will continue to do so through reboots.
>
> Paul

I forgot to add, If you still insist on networking the old way enter the
following command:

# touch /etc/hostname.rtls0

This empty file tells Solaris to plumb rtls0 at every reboot.

Paul
From: Larry Lindstrom on 10 Jan 2010 03:43
On Jan 9, 4:41 pm, Paul Gress <pgr...(a)pb.net> wrote:
> On 01/ 9/10 05:40 PM, Larry Lindstrom wrote:
>
>
>
> >     So here are three questions.  How do I get the rtls driver to
> > "stick" through re-boots?  How do I connect to the Internet?  How do I
> > get that button that brings up the network configuration GUI to re-
> > appear on the menu bar?
>
> >                                    Thanks
> >                                    Larry
>
> It seems like your trying to do things the old Solaris way.  It can
> still work in Opensolaris.
>
> But lets see if we can get this done an easier way.  First what release
> of Opensolaris are you using?
>
> Besides that, it sounds like NWAM is turned off.  NWAM stands for
> "NetWork AutoMagic".  It automatically configures your networking.
>
> It sounds as if yours is turned off.
>
> If you enter the command:
>
> $ svcs -a |grep network/physical
> disabled       12:37:06 svc:/network/physical:default
> online         12:37:07 svc:/network/physical:nwam
> $
>
> Do you get what I get?
>
> If not, NWAM is disabled.  To enable it enter the following two commands:
>
> # svcadm disable network/physical:default
> # svcadm enable network/physical:nwam
>
> Basically that turns off the old Solaris 10 or earlier networking and
> turns on the new Opensolaris networking.
>
> Your networking should now configure automatically, whether it's wired
> or WIFI and will continue to do so through reboots.
>
> Paul

Thanks Paul:

And I'm posting this from OpenSolaris.

I'm using 2009/06.

I ran "svcadm" as you suggested and "svcs -a" had the lines you
described, but still no luck.

I then ran "touch /etc/hostname.rtls0", no luck there either.

So I re-installed OpenSolaris, followed the directions in the
configuration windows that popped up from the button with the RJ45
icon in the menu bar for a manual configuration because I'm using
static IP on the LAN, and everything is just fine.

I have no idea where I went wrong in the last installation. I
think I followed these same steps.

Anyway, I appreciate everybody's assistance.

Thanks
Larry
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