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* Re: [9fans] rtl8139 troubles and 2 questions
@ 2002-07-04 17:43 forsyth
  2002-07-04 19:41 ` FJ Ballesteros
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: forsyth @ 2002-07-04 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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ether8139 possibly (probably) isn't configured in /sys/src/9/pc/^(pc pcdisk).

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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] rtl8139 troubles and 2 questions
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 16:15:28 GMT
Message-ID: <4488d66c.0207040759.5e2cd9df@posting.google.com>

hi.

i'm trying to set up plan 9 on my computer, however i can't seem to get
ethernet running.  first i tried using an rtl8029 pci card, but it wouldn't
show up at all, then i exchanged it for an rtl8139 card which at least shows
up (with ether0=type=rtl8139), but i can't seem to get it working.

9load seems to probe it, and when i boot i get a line saying:
"ether#0: rtl8139: port 0xE400 irq 11: 00C12602EA37"

however, once rio starts up, if i cat /dev/*alloc it's not there,
and i've got no entries in /net.  bind -b '#l0' /net tells me:
"no free devices"

i have disabled everything that's not needed in the bios (usb, parallel
port, serial ports, etc.) and the network card has got its own irq (ie.
not shared with anything else.)

if anybody has any ideas on how to fix this, i would be very grateful
to hear them!

a different question: is it possible to change the keymap? if so,
how do i do it?

and one more: if i run "mk && mk install" in /sys/src/boot/pc and then
copy 9load to /n/9fat to replace my current one, it never wants to boot.
i just get "PBS..." and then it hangs, even after things like only
adding a print().  i suppose there's something i have to do that i'm
missing... if anybody could help me out with this also, i'd be very grateful.

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* Re: [9fans] rtl8139 troubles and 2 questions
  2002-07-04 17:43 [9fans] rtl8139 troubles and 2 questions forsyth
@ 2002-07-04 19:41 ` FJ Ballesteros
  2002-07-04 20:52   ` [9fans] WD hard disk not available in partdisk John DeGood
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: FJ Ballesteros @ 2002-07-04 19:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans



You can change the keymap but not in the distributed keyboard
driver. After you install your system, you can extract an alternate
keyboard driver (including manual pages) from
http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/export/kbd.tgz (I think it's kbd.tgz, but
there's a link at http://plan9.escet.urjc.es in case it's not).

Look at the extracted plan9.ini(8) to see how to select your default
kbd map.

If you have problems, let me know and I'll try to help.


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* [9fans] WD hard disk not available in partdisk
  2002-07-04 19:41 ` FJ Ballesteros
@ 2002-07-04 20:52   ` John DeGood
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: John DeGood @ 2002-07-04 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

I tried to install 4th Edition on an old Western Digital AC2340 340 MB hard
drive.  The hard drive is recognized by the BIOS and works with DOS and
Win95, but it does not appear in "partdisk" during the Plan 9 install.  I
also tried an old Seagate ST3243A 214 MB hard drive and "partdisk"
recognizes it fine.  I tried all master/slave combinations of the AC2340 and
ST3243A, and in every case only the ST3243A is available in "partdisk".

Here are snippets of what I get with the ST3243A as primary master and the
AC2340 as primary slave.  In every case the AC2340 appears to be recognized
early in the boot process, but it is never available in "partdisk":
----
  dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0000 mwdma 0000 dma 00000000 rwm
8
  dev B0 port 1F0 config 427A capabilities 0100 mwdma 0000 dma 00000000 rwm
16
  dev A0 port 170 config 8580 capabilities 0B00 mwdma 0003 dma 00000000 rwm
0
----
  The following disk devices were found.

  sdC0 - ST3243A
  * p1     0     1023  (1023 cylinders, 203.80 MB) FATHUGE
   empty  1023  1024  (1 cylinders, 204.00 KB)

  sdD0 - NEC CD-ROM DRIVE: 2523.18
----
This system has an old Intel Plato (aka Premier/PCI II) motherboard (Pentium
90 w/ 430NX chipset).

I also tried a 3rd Edition 9disk.9fd and had the same problem.

Am I doing something dumb or is this a bug/feature? :-)

John



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* Re: [9fans] rtl8139 troubles and 2 questions
@ 2002-07-05  2:23 okamoto
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: okamoto @ 2002-07-05  2:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

I must say something here.

I reported a problem of rtl8139 and Realtek 8100BL chip for
release 3 Plan 9.   However, it was proved that I used older version
of ether8139.c driver, and am now using its most recent driver and
has no problem.   I'm now using AOpen's mother, AX4B Pro-533 with 
onboard Realtex 8100BL LAN chip (8139 actually) and Pen 4 1.6GHz 
for our Auth/CPU server.  I have no problem so far.

Kenji



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* [9fans] rtl8139 troubles and 2 questions
@ 2002-07-04 16:15 Martin Faxer
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Martin Faxer @ 2002-07-04 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

hi.

i'm trying to set up plan 9 on my computer, however i can't seem to get
ethernet running.  first i tried using an rtl8029 pci card, but it wouldn't
show up at all, then i exchanged it for an rtl8139 card which at least shows
up (with ether0=type=rtl8139), but i can't seem to get it working.

9load seems to probe it, and when i boot i get a line saying:
"ether#0: rtl8139: port 0xE400 irq 11: 00C12602EA37"

however, once rio starts up, if i cat /dev/*alloc it's not there,
and i've got no entries in /net.  bind -b '#l0' /net tells me:
"no free devices"

i have disabled everything that's not needed in the bios (usb, parallel
port, serial ports, etc.) and the network card has got its own irq (ie.
not shared with anything else.)

if anybody has any ideas on how to fix this, i would be very grateful
to hear them!

a different question: is it possible to change the keymap? if so,
how do i do it?

and one more: if i run "mk && mk install" in /sys/src/boot/pc and then
copy 9load to /n/9fat to replace my current one, it never wants to boot.
i just get "PBS..." and then it hangs, even after things like only
adding a print().  i suppose there's something i have to do that i'm
missing... if anybody could help me out with this also, i'd be very grateful.


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