[9fans] Plan 9 install on notebook no-go

[9fans] Plan 9 install on notebook no-go

[Marques C Luke]

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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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*nomp=1
distname=plan9
partition=new
nobootprompt=local!/bzroot
#console=0
monitor=multisync75
vgasize=640x480x8
mouseport=ps2
bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
installurl=E\plan.iso
                                                   
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                            

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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 install on notebook no-go

[Russ Cox]

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