Solaris 10 Java Desktop Environment Problems

austinramsay · 05-21-2008, 04:31 PM

Hello,
I got Solaris and installed it a couple days ago. I love it and want to keep it on my computer. But somehow, my JDE got messed up. CDE works fine. I also need to get my wireless card working on solaris 10 still, but I have no way to get on my JDE. It loads, gives an error saying that

gnome-volume-manager has crashed

And then, the taskbar closes and the background and icons load. But now, I have no taskbar. Refer here: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5297924

For my post on the Sun Solaris 10 General Discussion forums.
Please help me. I really want this to work again.

austinramsay · 05-21-2008, 05:02 PM

Never mind, it's working fine now. But I need my internet working, how do I configure and activate my card? I went into the menu on Solaris, chose network, and did everything to my card, pressed Activate, and the net still doesn't work. Please help, thanks.

jlliagre · 05-22-2008, 02:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by austinramsay

Never mind, it's working fine now.

Please share your solution if you know what fixed the issue.

Quote:

But I need my internet working, how do I configure and activate my card? I went into the menu on Solaris, chose network, and did everything to my card, pressed Activate, and the net still doesn't work.

How did you configure your network at the Solaris installation time ?
Are you able to ping your router ?
What says:

Code:

ifconfig -a
netstat -rn
grep "^hosts" /etc/nsswitch.conf
cat /etc/resolv.conf

?

austinramsay · 05-22-2008, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre

Please share your solution if you know what fixed the issue.

How did you configure your network at the Solaris installation time ?
Are you able to ping your router ?
What says:

Code:

ifconfig -a
netstat -rn
grep "^hosts" /etc/nsswitch.conf
cat /etc/resolv.conf

?

My solution, I just reinstalled Solaris, it worked. I don't think I ever configured my wireless card during installation. I can't ping any websites or anything, if that is what you mean.

ifconfig -a responded:

Code:

lo0: flags=2001000849<UP, LOOPBACK, RUNNING, MULTICAST, IPv4, VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1

    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

ath0: flags=201000842<BROADCAST, RUNNING, MULTICAST, IPv4, CoS> mtu 1500 index 2

    inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0
    ether 0:9:5b:c6:2c:97

#netstat -rn responds:

Code:

Routing Table: IPv4
------------------------------------------------------
Destination      Gateway    Flags     Ref        Use    Interface
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
224.0.0.0       127.0.0.1     U        1          0      lo0
127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1     UH       6        282      lo0

#grep "^hosts" /etc/nsswitch.conf responds:

Code:

hosts:    files

#cat /etc/resolv.conf responds:

Code:

nameserver 76.85.229.110
nameserver 76.85.229.111

Those DNS addresses I added myself with the Administation > Network application. No idea what's going wrong. Any solutions to get my net working, with my wireless card? Thanks.

jlliagre · 05-22-2008, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by austinramsay

My solution, I just reinstalled Solaris, it worked.

That's quite extreme.

Quote:

ifconfig -a responded:

Code:

ath0: flags=201000842<BROADCAST, RUNNING, MULTICAST, IPv4, CoS> mtu 1500 index 2

    inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0
    ether 0:9:5b:c6:2c:97

Your NIC has no IP and isn't configured to request one. Sure it can't communicate.

Try this:

Code:

wificonfig -i ath0 connect your_wifi_network
ifconfig ath0 dhcp

Then edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to have

Code:

hosts: files dns

Note that this is quite a burden to configure. Solaris Express / OpenSolaris just does all of this automatically and records settings across reboot when nwam is enabled.

austinramsay · 05-22-2008, 07:36 PM

Thanks so much, my internet is working now! I am on my solaris system right now! Thanks, and I am on Solaris 10 Express, sorry for not saying that earlier. Thanks again.

jlliagre · 05-22-2008, 08:28 PM

Glad you made it.

By the way, it's either Solaris 10 or Solaris Express. It can't be both as Solaris Express is assumed to be the beta of the next version after Solaris 10.

You could have then run the simpler:

Code:

scvadm disable physical:default
svcadm enable physical:nwam