[9fans] Hardware and Network Config Questions

[Michael Carmody sanfranmike@worldnet.att.net]

Thanks for the offer to share your 3Com905BX drivers from Brazil. In
spite of the difficulties I'd like you to send it to me and I'll try to
make it work. It will give me something to do while I wait for the new
Plan 9 release.


forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
>
> >>The second hardware problem concerns the 3Com905BX 10/100MB card I
> >>bought for BeOS. This doesn't work with either the 3Com 503 or 589
> >>driver that comes with the boot disk. The distribution I have is pretty
> >>old. I was wondering if there were any updates that will allow me to use
> >>this card.
>
> there are, based on jmk's brazil drivers and back-ported to plan 9 by various
> people (in two different ways), but it is sufficiently painful to distribute because the variant
> that makes it straightforward to drop brazil drivers in, and thus keep them
> up to date, also relies on changes to the pci subsystem, small changes to the
> stream subsystem and i'm not sure what else.  might be easier to wait for
> the new release, but if you're eager, i can give you what i use.
> i might be exaggerating the difficulties.