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Solaris Express Developer Edition + Apple Airport Extreme

807557Nov 1 2007 — edited Nov 1 2007
I just installed Solaris Express Develper Edition without any problems, but I can't seem to get my wireless connection up and running. I use an Apple Airport Extreme and while my MacBook with Mac OS X and my Xubuntu machine have no problems connecting to the internet through the Airport, my Solaris says he can't connect.

I allready disabled the Auto-magic stuff so I can setup the connection manually. I did it with the following two commands:

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

The wireless interface ath0 can detect all the available networks (including mine), so it works.

My Airport uses WPA/WPA2 Personal and DHCP.

In the Network settings of Solaris I've set the properties of the wireless ath0 interface as follows:
* enable this connection
* activate on boot
* network name (ESSID): my network is detected and I can select it from the dropdown list of available networks
* Key Type: Plain (ASCII)
* WEP key: my WEP key (the thing I filled in as WPA/WPA2 Personal on my airport)
* Connection settings Configuration: DHCP

I click OK and then try to activate the ath0 interface, but it doesn't work. The message is:

"Could noet enable the interface ath0

Check that the settings are correct for this network and that the computer is correctly connected to it".

Which is frustrating, because as far as I know, the settings are correct (ESSID, WEP, ...) and the computer is correctly connected as it can detect all the available wifi networks in my area.

Does anybody have any idea? Thnx in advace,

Nico
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