[9fans] New User: Basic Questions (unclear in FAQ etc)

[Kevin McQuiggin mcquiggi@sfu.ca]

Hi All:

I'm a new user. I've installed the pcdist, from the newest floppy
images/files, to my 486 PC.

I have two initial goals:

1. I want to get Plan 9 configured with my NE2000 card to allow me to
either telnet to one of my unix boxes (on the LAN), or be able to ping the
Plan 9 machine from another machine.
The card is at 0x300 and IRQ5, and appears to be found by probing on boot
(the ethernet address appears on the green-text login/root fs page).

With this in mind I hunted around and found the following on the "Tips" page:

Subject: Configuring IP

        ndb/cs                          # sets sysname
        ip/ipconfig -b -m ipmask ipaddr
        ip/arpd -b bcast-addr
        echo -n 'add 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 128.100.8.224' > '#P/iproute'

        bind -a '#Q' /dev               # icmp device
        aux/icmp                        # icmp listener
        echo -n 'add tcp il udp icmp' > /net/cs

        and I added this to /lib/namespace:
        bind -a #Q /net

Here are my observations:

- the ip/arpd line hangs forever, have to reboot the machine.
- the #Q device is not known to my kernel, it complains about unknown #
device.


2. I'd like to get my ATAPI cdrom visible. The "#R" device is for SCSI, the
"#m" device is for soundblaster. I can't find the letter code for ATAPI
although it appears from other pages and the FAQ that it is supported.

Then I'll be able to install the rest of the system.


Oh, and the "man" utility is not available, it says "file not found". 



Thanks in advance,

Kevin


Ke

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Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi@sfu.ca