cant conect to net

munchausen

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Jun 26, 2009, 6:10:54 PM6/26/09

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Just installed Open S 10 on a spare PC. no probs installing but I cant
seem to connect 2 the "net"
I've checked a few FAQs' but couldnt find anything. I turn 61 in
September and have played with Linux a bit.
What should I check ?
Thanks, M.

Ian Collins

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Jun 26, 2009, 6:22:32 PM6/26/09

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munchausen wrote:
> Just installed Open S 10 on a spare PC. no probs installing but I cant
> seem to connect 2 the "net"
> I've checked a few FAQs' but couldnt find anything.

What exactly did you install and on what hardware?

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Ian Collins

munchausen

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Jun 26, 2009, 6:35:18 PM6/26/09

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I downloaded Open S as a single DVD Iso image from the S site.
I think its ver 10. it went onto a AMD chip running at ( I think) 2.6
and 1 gig ram. it installed no probs. I didnt get any error msgs.
when I start Firefox it says it cant find my home site.
www.internode.on.net
same with Thunderbird. it cant find mail.internode.on.net what
settings should I check ?
M.

Ian Collins

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Jun 26, 2009, 6:48:40 PM6/26/09

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munchausen wrote:
> Ian Collins wrote:
>> munchausen wrote:
>>> Just installed Open S 10 on a spare PC. no probs installing but I
>>> cant seem to connect 2 the "net"
>>> I've checked a few FAQs' but couldnt find anything.
>>
>> What exactly did you install and on what hardware?
>>
> I downloaded Open S as a single DVD Iso image from the S site.
> I think its ver 10.

That doesn't really help, did you download OpenSolaris, or Solaris 10?

it went onto a AMD chip running at ( I think) 2.6
> and 1 gig ram. it installed no probs. I didnt get any error msgs.
> when I start Firefox it says it cant find my home site.
> www.internode.on.net
> same with Thunderbird. it cant find mail.internode.on.net what settings
> should I check ?

What network options were you offered during the install, if you weren't
offered any, you NIC probably wasn't recognised. If you were, what does

ifconfig -a

report?

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Ian Collins

munchausen

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Jun 26, 2009, 7:25:46 PM6/26/09

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Twas open S and I wasnt offered any options. I'll do the ifconfig -a
and see wot it says.
Thanks, M.

munchausen

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Jun 28, 2009, 4:56:22 AM6/28/09

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back again. i did ifconfig -a and got
"flags=2001000849<loopback,running,multicast,ipv4,virtual>mut 8232 index
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask if000000"

M.

Ian Collins

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Jun 28, 2009, 5:07:16 AM6/28/09

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munchausen wrote:
>>>
>> Twas open S and I wasnt offered any options. I'll do the ifconfig -a
>> and see wot it says.
>> Thanks, M.
>
> back again. i did ifconfig -a and got
> "flags=2001000849<loopback,running,multicast,ipv4,virtual>mut 8232 index
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask if000000"
>

Then your NIC isn't recognised.

If you have another OS on the box that does, download the Sun device
detection tool and see what it is.

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Ian Collins

Chris Ridd

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Jun 28, 2009, 6:41:08 AM6/28/09

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If it is OpenSolaris then Applications > System Tools > Device Driver
Utility will provide the same sort of info. (Except it won't tell you
about Solaris 10 drivers...)
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Chris