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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] vga and ethernet
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In-Reply-To: <000e01c11972$b05c7520$0691e1cf@q3m5e0>; from Dean Ash on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:41:31PM -0500
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 06:08:35 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:41:31PM -0500, Dean Ash wrote:
>
> So I've got p9 up and running at work. I'm very happy. 2 problems have
> arisen though. 1. aux/vga doesn't want to change my resolution. I set my
> monitor to the multisync75 hz. the original error I was getting with aux/vga
> was that the vgadb didn't have the resolution I wanted in the db. I'm
> looking to get my resolution up to 1024x768x8 or 1152x864x8. well I put in
> these resolutions in the vgadb and now aux/vga doesn't report and error but
> it also doesn't do anything

I can't exactly be very helpful here, but perhaps you need to be more
specific.

> my second problem is getting a network connection. ip/config times out when
> I let it go for DHCP using ip/config -G also times out. I'm wondering if I
> need to do something with ether0. the man pages talk about using bind i.e.
> bind -a '#10' /net but the -a wants a directory to bind to /net. the problem
> is I don't know what #10 is so I can't figure out if it represents my
> ether0. anyhelp or pointers to a place to look would be appreciated.
>
That's #l0 ("ell-zero") not #10.  "L" for Lance, "0" for the first
device of its type.

++L