4 disk system with a 3C589

4 disk system with a 3C589

[Paul]

It appears to me that some of the utilities required to use the PCMCIA
3C589 ethernet card are not in the 4 disk system.  I have extracted
the CDROM onto another system, so I have access to everything.  Does
anyone have a minimal Plan 9 system running on a notebook with the 3C589?
If so, I would be interested to learn what you had to bring over, beyond
the 4 disk system, to make it go.  Thanks,

				-Paul Borman
				 prb@bsdi.com

4 disk system with a 3C589

[Paul]

> The 9pcdisk on the 4 diskette system has the ether589 driver built in.
> There are no utilities to set it up, it should just work if you have
> 
> ether0=type=3C589
> 
> in plan9.ini.  Of course, we may not be recognizing your pcmcia controller
> chip.  If it's an i82365 or the cirrus PD6710 or PD6720, we should.

*Sigh*  I have a vadim (sp?) pcmcia controller.  Normally this is supposed
to be a superset of the i82365 (Under BSD/OS I can find it as "Intel 82365SL")
but it appears to not be friendly with Plan 9.  I even hacked the i82365
code to assume it is an i82365 rather than checking to see if it was a cirrus
chipset (the code found it as a cirrus chipset) but I don't seem to get
the 3C589 (not a 3C589B) is still not recognized.  Maybe in a few months
I will have time to track this one down.  With the many PC's I have, I
just don't seem to be able to find a combination of hardware and
availability I need to get a Plan 9 network running.  It looks like I will
have to stay with kfs for some time.

Thanks for your input.

				-Paul

PS:  The BSD/OS pcmcia code I am running is alpha code from some fine folks
     in Japan and is not included in the BSD/OS release.

4 disk system with a 3C589

[presotto]

The 9pcdisk on the 4 diskette system has the ether589 driver built in.
There are no utilities to set it up, it should just work if you have

ether0=type=3C589

in plan9.ini.  Of course, we may not be recognizing your pcmcia controller
chip.  If it's an i82365 or the cirrus PD6710 or PD6720, we should.

You cannot boot from the ether if you have a PCMCIA ether card, you have to
boot from the hard disk.  We didn't have room in the 64k b.com for a PCMCIA
driver...

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It appears to me that some of the utilities required to use the PCMCIA
3C589 ethernet card are not in the 4 disk system.  I have extracted
the CDROM onto another system, so I have access to everything.  Does
anyone have a minimal Plan 9 system running on a notebook with the 3C589?
If so, I would be interested to learn what you had to bring over, beyond
the 4 disk system, to make it go.  Thanks,

				-Paul Borman
				 prb@bsdi.com