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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 installation
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In-Reply-To: <3BBB2F5A.B7F211CE@princeton.edu>; from Martin Harriss on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:31:38AM -0400
Date: Wed,  3 Oct 2001 17:42:42 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:31:38AM -0400, Martin Harriss wrote:
> 
> A while back, just for giggles, I threw the install diskette into a
> GXi.  Similar VGA and ethernet to what you have.  I got the VGA to come
> up simply by inserting the appropriate string into vgalib; it was some
> S3 variant.  Since this was only a basic sanity check to see if the
> machine would run Plan9, I never did the full install - thus I didn't
> get to check out the ethernet.  However, as that machine is no longer
> serving its original purpose I will soon be trying to do the full
> install.
> 
I thought I'd done that properly, but I wasn't really trying very
hard.  I'll try it once more.  It certainly goes into graphic mode and
I can even run rio, but it isn't useable.  I don't think it's a
monitor thing, more likely memory mapping.

> As far as the ethernet is concerned, have you tried turning off the plug
> and play?  (To do that you need the configuration program which you can
> download from 3Com.)
> 
I'll give that a try.  I'll also give it a shove with NetBSD just in
case I find something new about it.

Thanks for the reply, I'll keep you posted.  And if you do come up
with a plan9.ini that goes the distance, please let me know.

++L