Ok… So I have to post my experience with OpenSolaris thus far and not being able to access the internet on my HP desktop.
Weirdest thing… It would find the interface but couldn’t pull DHCP.
I can’t tell you how many hours I spent trying to make this NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller work until I found this. I have to applaud this guy ‘stephenb’.
Very last message states:
I did not need to go that far, though. He said nge driver was fixed in the newer release and I installed OpenSolaris over my Solaris express.
it still did not work right away, but this got it working:
svcadm disable nwam
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0
nge0: flags=201004843 mtu 1500 index 2
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000
ether 5:3c:db:21:19:0
scb@immanuel:~$ cat /etc/dhcp.nge0
cat: /etc/dhcp.nge0: No such file or directory
scb@immanuel:~$ cat /etc/nodename
immanuel
scb@immanuel:~$ ls /etc/host*
/etc/hosts // there is no /etc/hostname.nge0
scb@immanuel:~# touch /etc/dhcp.nge0
scb@immanuel:~# touch /etc/hostname.nge0
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0 dhcp start
ifconfig: nge0: wait timed out, operation still pending...
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0 ether 0:19:21:db:3c:5 // reversing the ether address
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0
nge0: flags=201004843 mtu 1500 index 2
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000
ether 0:19:21:db:3c:5
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0 dhcp start
scb@immanuel:~# netstat -rn
svcadm enable nwam
SWEET! How the hell switching the MAC Address makes a difference…I have no idea… I’ve just added it to the startup script now.
Thanks a ton! Hope this helps someone else who may be scratching their head on this issue.
Check out the full thread over at the OpenSolaris Forums