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From: Richard Powell <richard@powell.name>
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Subject: [9fans] Hardware detection problems
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:04:09 -0700
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Greetings,

I'm new to Plan 9.  I just downloaded plan9.ios.bz2 to try it out.  I
can boot it and run rio, but I'm having a few hardware detection and/or
configuration problems.

I have a mother board with four IDE ports, two ATA-66 ports on a VIA
KX133 chipset and two ATA-100 ports on a HPT370 chip on the PCI buss.  I
wanted to install Plan 9 on the primary drive of IDE-3, but the two
drives on the HPT370 chip are not detected.  I was able to install and
boot Plan 9 by recabling the disk to the primary master slot (sdC0).  I
know the HPT370 is not on the officially supported hardware list, but I
thought the drives would at least be detected and maybe work in PIO mode.

Also, I don't think my ethernet card is being detected because there is
no /net/ether0 file.  The boot loader prints a line for ether0 with a
port number and IRQ, but after loading the kernel there are no
additional ether0 messages.  It is a Netgear FA312, which is mentioned
in the supported hardware list.

It does seem to detect the USB ports and ISA sound card.

Is there some trick I'm missing or am I just out of luck?

Thanks for any tips!
Richard Powell



plan9.ini file:

bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9pcdisk
bootdisk=local!#S/sdC0/fs
*nomp=1
distname=plan9
partition=new
#console=0
ether0=type=83815
monitor=multisync135
vgasize=1280x1024x32
mouseport=ps2
audio0=type=ess1688
installurl=http://204.178.31.2/magic/9down4e/compressed/1031888044.uvvc86ygkwyv5x3vz3r7u72ae3f4ndq5



Hardware Configuration:

800Mhz Athlon (Not OC)
Abit KA7-100 Mother-board - Via KX133 chipset + HPT370
Multi-boot using GRUB: Windows XP, Windows 98SE, Red Hat 7.3, Scyld
Beowulf, and Plan 9
256MB Crucial PC-133 SDRAM
MAXTOR D740 (80GB ATA-133)
IBM DTLA-307020 (20GB ATA-100)
HP CD-Writer Plus 9100i
Asus AGP-V7100 (GeForce 2MX 32MB)
Turtle Beach Malibu
Netgear FA312 10/100 Ethernet