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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Changing the active NIC on 9front
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:22:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ecaf7e3b0244405cda0902d152a0581@mikro.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPkKT5GkmuzsC8qcK2qZsp8u6H9Dysp2wB0BexmxorVmXFTGWw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon Feb 17 20:05:50 EST 2014, mmhansen@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > if it was a snake, it would have bit you.
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/KnownWorkingHardware#Lucent_WaveLAN_PC24E-H-FC
> >
>
> Thanks, but I already have the card configured to connect an access
> point, as established by both the output of sysinfo and the log of the
> access point.
>
> What I need to know is how to get the IP stack to use the wavelan card
> instead of the built-in wired nic.

i think that plan9.ini(8) should be of some help.  usually the incantation
is
	ether0=type=<type>

where type is in /sys/src/9/pc/ether<>.c's call to addethercard().

9atom will automaticly assign ether0 if you pxe boot.  but i think that's
a unique feature.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-18  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18  1:04 Michael Hansen
2014-02-18  2:22 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-02-18  2:39 ` Michael Hansen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-17 11:47 Michael Hansen
2014-02-17 11:51 ` Nick Owens

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