From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] iPAC networking From: forsyth@vitanuova.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-cebhiekkulcnyncymyfwohtxqt" Message-Id: <20010928140011.F3BCC19A3D@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:04:41 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f625d118-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-cebhiekkulcnyncymyfwohtxqt Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lucent Orinoco (or whatever they are now) 11m/bit wireless cards (wavelan) are supported. it should not be a huge piece of work to extend that to one or more of the pcmcia wired ethernets. you'll probably need to add the dynamic configuration entry for it to be usable. USB ethernet is unlikely to be possible because the SA11x0 provides device-end USB not host mode. i'd expect USB ethernet gadgets to be devices not hosts. there is a host USB mode in in the SA1111 auxiliary chip but since the chip isn't completely wired up it probably isn't usable. --upas-cebhiekkulcnyncymyfwohtxqt Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@vitanuova.com id 1001682286:11:17215:1; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:04:46 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa1116529; 28 Sep 2001 13:04 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.8.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 3D92019A70; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from mailhost1.dircon.co.uk (mailhost1.dircon.co.uk [194.112.32.65]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 65C8219A6B for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:59:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cthulhu.dircon.co.uk (cthulhu.dircon.co.uk [194.112.45.202]) by mailhost1.dircon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25115 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:59:52 +0100 (BST) Received: (from digbyt@localhost) by cthulhu.dircon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10828 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:59:51 +0100 (GMT/BST) 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 X-Face: &(//%&/WHJk7>_lW'@YYeED-qsdBV8&h3_Hpn/0.9_=}vTk}5u/2l=Mx&rX!\.i9X{(S@nk[we'a|IX#|?jmh`(j}a+\C5/> %DpYTPd<7jF2V b[Z.TjttL[FMm_$Z$^#qd62A:T.qw7}0S\o.Or_|I 2t~t0D=eCU"S?ls%(Ro X-Pgp-Key-Fingerprint: 61 E7 39 FE 4A F4 CA F3 F5 5E BB 45 26 EC 36 3C X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL70 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] iPAC networking Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Reply-To: digbyt@acm.org (Digby Tarvin) List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:59:50 +0100 (GMT/BST) 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 --upas-cebhiekkulcnyncymyfwohtxqt--