[indiana-discuss] After changing Wireless Card, the end?

[Renee Danson]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:26:34PM +0100, Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> Luis Useche p??e v so 07. 02. 2009 v 08:06 -0800:
> > I was able to solve the problem! Now I have my machine going and everything works just fine again.
> > 
> > First I disabled gdm while I was fixing the problem. Then, after search for the string "wpi1" in /etc/, I found the file /etc/dladm/datalink.conf. I realized there were listed 3 cards bge0 (wired), wpi0 and wpi1. I guess I was having something like two interfaces for the same card.
> > 
> 
> Nope, the first one was probably assigned to your original card. It is
> not bug, Solaris is not assigning devices per boot (to avoid reshuffle
> ordering of devices). "Reconfigure reboot" would cleanup it.
> 
> > I remove both wpiX cards with the dladm command: "dladm delete-phys wpiX". And reboot.
> > 
> 
> Yes, that's the other possibility.
> 
> > After this everything works fine.
> > 
> > Apparently the bug is related to the fact that the old card was never removed from the list of available NIC.
> > 
> > I would appreciate if you help me to understand the problem so I can report the bug.
> 
> I would say that NWAM had some problem with configuration after wpi0 was
> removed and new wpi1 was added to system. It should be easy to
> reproduce/

In addition to the wpi0/wpi1 confusion, you might also have been running into
CR 6804774/bugzilla 6331 [http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6331.
The bugs.opensolaris.org database doesn't seem to have the info yet; the CR was
just filed yesterday, so hopefully the info will show up soon].

This was a bug introduced in build 106, where nwamd would exit shortly after
starting due to a permissions problem; after a few cycles of this, smf would
declare a problem and put the service into maintenance.  It was unfortunately
a timing problem that happens quite often with opensolaris, but was never
seen on nevada.

A fix was integrated into nevada today, so it will be in build 109.

-renee