While most of this book is for Solaris sysadmins, and these days Oracle doesn't even officially sell a Solaris desktop any more, for those die-hard folks who like to run Solaris everywhere, it can make a pretty good laptop OS. Even wireless support is virtually painless if you run the official desktop and tools. NWAM is an additional tool that rounds out the networking making it easy to use for an average user.

The direct desktop integration of NWAM makes Solaris 11 comparable, or perhaps even superior, to many other common desktop OSs that support mobile networking.

Most people who use NWAM will probably use the GUI tool, which is why this chapter focuses on that interface. However, it should be noted that everything that can be done through the GUI can also be done through the command-line tools netadm and netcfg. Please consult the relevant Oracle documentation for those tools, if required.