[9fans] Adaptec 274x, 3Com 3c900 "boomerang", Matrox Millenium

[9fans] Adaptec 274x, 3Com 3c900 "boomerang", Matrox Millenium

[Nigel]

274x - that's the Vesa Local Bus controller. Is that right? If you meant
294x (PCI), then there is a glimmer of hope, in that I mounted a DOS
partition last night via a 2940UW controller. It'll be a time yet before
I ship.

Matrox Millenium - Matrox were not very forthcoming a time back, so "no
manual, no driver". I think they are more helpful now, so it needs
someone desperate enough to do the work. I'd go and buy a different
card...

The Plan 9 FTP site works for me.

In general though to install you need to build a new kernel, which
implies you have an already working machine. To this end I maintain a
nasty IDE drive in my machine to boot from.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	elliott [SMTP:Elliott.Hughes@genedata.com]
>Sent:	Thursday, January 15, 1998 3:33 PM
>To:	9fans
>Subject:	[9fans] Adaptec 274x, 3Com 3c900 "boomerang", Matrox Millenium
>
>Having read the documents, skimmed through the manuals and finally
>having found a disc that I can install Plan 9 on, I'm getting this
>sinking feeling that none of my hardware is supported. The Plan 9 FAQ
>reckons that there's no Adaptec 274x driver, forsyth says he has a
>driver for the 3c900 (is this in pcdist?) and I've seen no mention of
>the Matrox Millenium (but VGA will do fine in the beginning).
>
>I'm unable to log in to the Plan 9 FTP site, and can't remember ever
>having successfully logged in there. Downloading from the web site seems
>to work, if a little slowly.
>
>Anyway, how do you rate my chances of running acme in the near future?
>
>-- 
>Elliott Hughes - GeneData AG, Postfach 254, CH-4016 Basel, Switzerland
>mailto:elliott.hughes@genedata.com  http://users.ch.genedata.com/~enh/

[9fans] Adaptec 274x, 3Com 3c900 "boomerang", Matrox Millenium

[elliott]

Nigel Roles wrote:
> 274x - that's the Vesa Local Bus controller. Is that right? If you meant
> 294x (PCI), then there is a glimmer of hope, in that I mounted a DOS
> partition last night via a 2940UW controller. It'll be a time yet before
> I ship.

Whoops! You're right: I meant 294x. When you're ready for testers, let
me know.

One thing I really hate about PC hardware is all this variety...

-- 
Elliott Hughes - GeneData AG, Postfach 254, CH-4016 Basel, Switzerland
mailto:elliott.hughes@genedata.com  http://users.ch.genedata.com/~enh/

[9fans] Adaptec 274x, 3Com 3c900 "boomerang", Matrox Millenium

[elliott]

Having read the documents, skimmed through the manuals and finally
having found a disc that I can install Plan 9 on, I'm getting this
sinking feeling that none of my hardware is supported. The Plan 9 FAQ
reckons that there's no Adaptec 274x driver, forsyth says he has a
driver for the 3c900 (is this in pcdist?) and I've seen no mention of
the Matrox Millenium (but VGA will do fine in the beginning).

I'm unable to log in to the Plan 9 FTP site, and can't remember ever
having successfully logged in there. Downloading from the web site seems
to work, if a little slowly.

Anyway, how do you rate my chances of running acme in the near future?

-- 
Elliott Hughes - GeneData AG, Postfach 254, CH-4016 Basel, Switzerland
mailto:elliott.hughes@genedata.com  http://users.ch.genedata.com/~enh/