[9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[taylor.garry]

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Hello, I'm considering buying a fanless small N100 mini PC to run Plan 9 (9Front likely), does anybody have experience of this working? I may just take a chance on it anyway, but I'm wondering if anybody has tried it?

Cheers

Garry
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Re: [9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[amply-gaffe-hunger via 9fans]

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Hi,

I’m currently running 9Front on an Intel N100-based fanless mini PC, and it works well overall. wireless networking isn’t functional。

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Cheers

Garry
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Re: [9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[taylor.garry]

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Hi, that sounds fine, I won't use wifi anyway.

Cheers!

Garry
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Re: [9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[Garry]

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Just to let anybody know thinking of running Plan 9 on a N100, it works fine for me. I got a fanless mini PC with N100, Plan 9 installed no problem and recognised the network right away. I've not tried wifi or sound because I don't need either, but so far the Plan 9 experience has been great on this little machine.
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Re: [9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[Oliver Lowe]

Thanks for the tip!

> I got a fanless mini PC with N100, Plan 9 installed no problem and
> recognised the network right away. 

What model NIC? I'm typing this from a N100 mini PC (running OpenBSD).
dmesg(8) reports the 2 network interfaces as:

        "Realtek 8168" rev 0x15: RTL8168H/8111H (0x5400)

which I'm hoping should be supported based on my very non-expert
reading of /sys/src/9/pc/ether8169.c

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Re: [9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[Garry]

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It's using the rtl8169 driver, but I'm not sure how to get the exact chipset model, and Googling and Copiloting isn't helping. If you know the command to run in 9front to get the info you need, let me know I'll run it.
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Re: [9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[tlaronde]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 07:24:28PM +1100, Oliver Lowe wrote:
> Thanks for the tip!
> 
> > I got a fanless mini PC with N100, Plan 9 installed no problem and
> > recognised the network right away. 
> 
> What model NIC? I'm typing this from a N100 mini PC (running OpenBSD).
> dmesg(8) reports the 2 network interfaces as:
> 
>         "Realtek 8168" rev 0x15: RTL8168H/8111H (0x5400)
> 
> which I'm hoping should be supported based on my very non-expert
> reading of /sys/src/9/pc/ether8169.c

It is or will be supported since it is probably (from 0x5400) Macfg_68
or Macfg_69:

        { 0x54000000, Macfg_68, Jmb9k, Fdesc2 | Fphywk | F8168gplus | Fmagicpkt2, 0x8F00 },
        { 0x54000000, Macfg_69, Jmb9k, Fdesc2 | Fphywk | F8168gplus | Fmagicpkt2, 0x8F00 },

You can already verify the PCI vendor Id and the device Id. Should be
one of these:

enum {                                          /* PCI vendors of */
        VRtl = 0x10EC,  /* Realtek */
        VNcb = 0x10FF,  /* NCube */
        VDlk = 0x1186,  /* D-LINK */
        VAlt = 0x1259,  /* Allied Telesis Inc */
        VUsr = 0x16EC,  /* USRobotics */
        VLnk = 0x1737,  /* Linksys */

};

And for the device:

        { VRtl, 0x8136, Rtl810x, Fpcie },
        { VRtl, 0x8161, Rtl8168, Fpcie },       /* RTL8168 add-on */
        { VRtl, 0x8162, Rtl8168, 0 },           /* RTL8168KB */
        { VRtl, 0x8168, Rtl8168, Fpcie },       /* RTL8168B */
        { VNcb, 0x8168, Rtl8168, 0 },

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Re: [9fans] 9Front on Intel N100?

[Aidan K. Wiggins via 9fans]

Funny enough, I finally got another ethernet daughtboard for my
laptop, and this is apparently the chip (combo?) it has. I've found it
hasn't worked for me yet. I will look into it in the coming days!

Aidan

Quoth tlaronde@kergis.com:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 07:24:28PM +1100, Oliver Lowe wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip!
> > 
> > > I got a fanless mini PC with N100, Plan 9 installed no problem and
> > > recognised the network right away. 
> > 
> > What model NIC? I'm typing this from a N100 mini PC (running OpenBSD).
> > dmesg(8) reports the 2 network interfaces as:
> > 
> >         "Realtek 8168" rev 0x15: RTL8168H/8111H (0x5400)
> > 
> > which I'm hoping should be supported based on my very non-expert
> > reading of /sys/src/9/pc/ether8169.c
> 
> It is or will be supported since it is probably (from 0x5400) Macfg_68
> or Macfg_69:
> 
> { 0x54000000, Macfg_68, Jmb9k, Fdesc2 | Fphywk | F8168gplus | Fmagicpkt2, 0x8F00 },
> { 0x54000000, Macfg_69, Jmb9k, Fdesc2 | Fphywk | F8168gplus | Fmagicpkt2, 0x8F00 },
> 
> You can already verify the PCI vendor Id and the device Id. Should be
> one of these:
> 
> enum {                                          /* PCI vendors of */
>         VRtl = 0x10EC,  /* Realtek */
>         VNcb = 0x10FF,  /* NCube */
>         VDlk = 0x1186,  /* D-LINK */
>         VAlt = 0x1259,  /* Allied Telesis Inc */
>         VUsr = 0x16EC,  /* USRobotics */
>         VLnk = 0x1737,  /* Linksys */
> 
> };
> 
> And for the device:
> 
> { VRtl, 0x8136, Rtl810x, Fpcie },
> { VRtl, 0x8161, Rtl8168, Fpcie },       /* RTL8168 add-on */
> { VRtl, 0x8162, Rtl8168, 0 },           /* RTL8168KB */
> { VRtl, 0x8168, Rtl8168, Fpcie },       /* RTL8168B */
> { VNcb, 0x8168, Rtl8168, 0 },
> 
> --
> Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com>
>              http://www.kergis.com/
>             http://kertex.kergis.com/
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