Gnome shows defaultfixed as disconnected

Hello,

I have enabled defaultfixed and added the net0 per the solaris 11 documentation. I'm able to ping outside like google and internally but I'm just not sure why the gnome network utility shows wired(net0) as disconnected. Any ideas? Thank you

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anyone? help or clarification would be appreciated.