On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:25:19AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > the output of /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/sosether > would be useful. > > - erik > pci 0.4.0: net 02.00.00 1039/0900 4 0:00001801 256 1:e4003000 4096 interfaces kmesg: Plan 9 E820: 00000000 0009f400 memory E820: 0009f400 000a0000 reserved E820: 000dc000 00100000 reserved E820: 00100000 0ddf0000 memory E820: 0ddf0000 0ddff000 acpi reclaim E820: 0ddff000 0de00000 acpi nvs E820: 0de00000 0e000000 reserved E820: 0e000000 10000000 reserved E820: fec00000 fec10000 reserved E820: fee00000 fee01000 reserved E820: fff80000 100000000 reserved 126 holes free 00019000 0009f000 548864 0040f000 05ae6000 91058176 91607040 bytes free cpu0: 2191MHz GenuineIntel PentiumIV/Xeon (cpuid: AX 0x0F29 DX 0xBFEBFBFF) ELCR: 06B8 #y0: 2 slot Intel 82365SL: port 0x3E0 irq 5 ns83815: auto neg timed out #u/usb/ep1.0: ohci: port 0xE0000000 irq 9 #u/usb/ep2.0: ohci: port 0xE0001000 irq 10 #u/usb/ep3.0: ehci: port 0xE0002000 irq 3 222M memory: 91M kernel data, 131M user, 502M swap usbd...usb/disk... root is from (tcp, local)[local!#S/sdC0/fossil]: user[none]: jake time... fossil(#S/sdC0/fossil)...version...time... init: starting /bin/rc The 'ns83815: autneg timed out' was the message being printed. I've also noticed that the man page for plan9.ini(8), it says >On the SiS controllers, the Ethernet address is not >detected properly; specify it with an ea= attribute. Is ea= supposed to be set to the actual ip address (the man page says physical network adress)? If so that's probably my problem. -- I am a man who does not exist for others.