NWAM doesn’t have a gui

One of the delights of working for a product development engineering organisation is that every now and again the staff get tasked with being guineapigs^W^Wtesting new releases of things such as Solaris Express, Developer Edition.I installed snv_62 on mu ultra20-M2 two weeks ago (yay for LiveUpgrade), but didn’t get around to installing it on the laptop until last week. I did a fresh install on the laptop, fought with the networking control panel for a bit and then went back to using svc:/network/physical:default because I had more pressing work to do than log bugs.That was last week. Yesterday we got a Directive (from a Director, of course .. image:: /images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

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) that we were to install, test and complete a survey on snv_63 or snv_64. One of these (probably snv_64, but don’t quote me) will end up being the next SXDE release. So after making use of some of my download quota I started the installation late last night.Choosing the upgrade install was pretty painless, but I got bitten by these bugs:(existing):6373052 Integrate vfe driver to solaris 116515062 Via Rhine ethernet is still not supported by Solaris {duplicate of 6373052}`6544953 sysidtool application hung in java.lang.Shutdown for x86 if using non-US time zone.`_(new):6555581 please, NWAM, let me know where I am`6555596 Highlander comes to Solaris networking: there can only be one`_6555600 JDS network control panel should hook into an SMF propertyOk, so the last one isn’t a bug but an RFE .. but it’s still an annoyance.Anyway!I got a phone call from John Beck who is the project lead for NWAM wanting to know just what I was blaming. It turns out that NWAM doesn’t have a gui. The gui that you might think is NWAM is in fact a JDS control panel, so if you’re going to log bugs against Solaris networking where your experience is from that control panel……. choose “jds/gnome/applications” rather than “solaris/network/config”.`Technorati`_ tags: topic:{Technorati}[OpenSolaris], topic:{Technorati}[Solaris], topic:{Technorati}[Solaris Express], topic:{Technorati}[Solaris Express, Developer Edition], topic:{Technorati}[NWAM], topic:{Technorati}[NetWork AutoMagic], topic:{Technorati}[JDS], topic:{Technorati}[networking],

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