* [9fans] Plan 9 install on notebook no-go
@ 2003-06-20 20:03 Marques C Luke
2003-06-21 0:42 ` Russ Cox
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From: Marques C Luke @ 2003-06-20 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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I'm new to this and need a bit of help, I am trying to install Plan9 onto
my notebook which doesn't have a CDROM drive. The install starts to go well
until it doesn't recognize my PC NIC <which is listed in the hardware
compatibility list>. I have no other way of transferring the necessary
files over to my notebook other than over the net. Here is a quick
breakdown of my hardware list: Intel 82371AB Disk, TI PCI-1250 Cardbus
controller, 3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA 3C589D, Neomagic MagicGraph vid, all
on a HP OmniBook 2100. I have attached a copy of my Plan9 config file. If
any of you can help with this issue please let me know.
Thank you,
Marques C Luke
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distname=plan9
partition=new
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mouseport=ps2
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* Re: [9fans] Plan 9 install on notebook no-go
2003-06-20 20:03 [9fans] Plan 9 install on notebook no-go Marques C Luke
@ 2003-06-21 0:42 ` Russ Cox
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From: Russ Cox @ 2003-06-21 0:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans, mluke
You may need to set your ethernet card's IRQ explicitly.
It's been a while, but I seem to recall that the default
didn't work well on some systems (in particular, mine).
I used (the system died years ago)
ether0=type=3C589 irq=11 media=10BaseT
in plan9.ini.
Watch during bootup for a line beginning with "#l0:".
If that doesn't work, try adding
pccard0=disabled
in plan9.ini to fall back to the old PCMCIA only driver
(by default we use the PCCARD+PCMCIA driver; maybe
it has a bug when dealing with your hardware).
During bootup, you should get a "#Y0:" line with
the PCCARD driver and a "#y0:" line with the
PCMCIA driver.
Russ
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