From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200109281259.NAA10828@cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010928121849.68177199E7@mail.cse.psu.edu> from "jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com" at "Sep 28, 2001 08:18:46 am" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Digby Tarvin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] iPAC networking Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:59:50 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f615ddd0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi all, Just looking at gathering together all the bits necessary to load Plan9 onto my iPAQ, and would like to know what accessories are supported by the port so far. In particular, given that the LAN is so central to Plan9, what supported options currently exist for connecting to a network? I guess there is always a serial ppp connection, but I would like to be able to plug in to an existing ethernet network without relying on special software on some other host. Are any PCMCIA cards supported? A USB ethernet interface would be nice, as it would leave the expansion free for disk storage, but I am guessing that would be a little ambitious at this stage. The sort of thing I would like to be able to do is pull an iPAQ out of my pocket, plug into somebody else's LAN (after updating the IP addresses using the built in display) and then boot Plan9. Then walk over to a random Unix or Windows PC and fire up a vnc viewer to get a familair development environment with a more comfortable sized keyboard and screen.. Any suggestions? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt@acm.org http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk