From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun,  8 Oct 1995 00:19:55 -0400
From: Paul Borman prb@bsdi.com
Subject: 4 disk system with a 3C589
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> 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.