[9fans] Plan 9 on a Thinkpad

[stuartb@acm.org stuartb@acm.org]

All this talk of a new Plan 9 release has gotten me
off my backside and playing with the '95 release
some more.  I installed the 4 floppy set on my
laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 310) and was pleasantly
surprised to find that most things were happy.  There
are a couple of points where I could use some help.

1) The VGA adapter is a C&T 65550.  I've added an entry
in /lib/vgadb for it specifying ctlr=ct65540 linear=1
and for 800x600x8, I get a blue screen with some hash
in the background that is my screen text.  Leaving out
the linear option or setting it to 0 seems to have no
effect.  A ctlr setting of ct65550 seems to be illegal.
Am I stuck to just 800x600x1 or is there some trick
anyone knows about that can get me 8 bit depth?

2) I haven't found any magic that will get my Linksys
PCMCIA ethernet card up.  In linux, the card manager
reports its control registers at 0x300 and it having
irq 3.  But ether0=type=ne2000 port=0x300 irq=3
doesn't seem to do anything.  (Linux does report it
to be an unknown NE2000 clone btw.)  Anyone have any
ideas here?

Thanks in advance,
Brian L. Stuart