The latest version of my graphical Network Configuration tool for Solaris 10 and above on laptops has been uploaded to the opensolaris community page: here .
What's New
The main problem that it fixes is that the current version of wificonfig has a slighlty different output on certain commands. Given that inetmenu parses those commands, I had to update it slightly to take into account the new behaviour. (In a nutshell, it stopped being able to detect WEP networks)
However, I've also added a few useful tweaks:
- Valid interface detection: I used to try to plumb every interface in the INTERFACE list which used to take a measurable amount of time. I've now rewritten the code so that it looks at /etc/path_to_inst instead, so its a lot quicker.
- The interface chooser also shows you whether the interface is an ethernet or wireless interface.
- I've added an interface that allows you to specify interfaces that you want inetmenu to configure on startup. (configure in the /etc/inetmenu/inetmenu-startup file)
- Finally, I've made inetmenu ipfilter and ntp aware so that it restarts these services as required when you make interface configuration changes.
Usage
Check out my original blog on the subject if you want to know what it is and how to set up and use it. inetmenu
