[9fans] wavelan card

[9fans] wavelan card

[john]

I just bought an Orinoco card to use with my T22 terminal.
I'm not sure what I have to do to get it working, so I thought I'd try
putting the following in my plan9.ini:
ether0=type=wavelan essid=geekhaus key1=<hex key>
and booting, but ip/ipconfig doesn't get an address. The power light
or whatever it is turns on, but not the rx/tx light. Anybody else
who has one of these want to point me the right way?
Thanks

John

Re: [9fans] wavelan card

[john]

> I just bought an Orinoco card to use with my T22 terminal.
> I'm not sure what I have to do to get it working, so I thought I'd try
> putting the following in my plan9.ini:
> ether0=type=wavelan essid=geekhaus key1=<hex key>
> and booting, but ip/ipconfig doesn't get an address. The power light
> or whatever it is turns on, but not the rx/tx light. Anybody else
> who has one of these want to point me the right way?
> Thanks
> 
> John

I guess I didn't read 9fans archive enough... a search turned up
some port= and irq= settings that are working for me now.
Only problem now is how to make it connect to one network while
I'm at school, and the other while I'm at home.

John

Re: [9fans] wavelan card

[Jamie Gavahan]

On 10/16/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
> > I just bought an Orinoco card to use with my T22 terminal.
> > I'm not sure what I have to do to get it working, so I thought I'd try
> > putting the following in my plan9.ini:
> > ether0=type=wavelan essid=geekhaus key1=<hex key>
> > and booting, but ip/ipconfig doesn't get an address. The power light
> > or whatever it is turns on, but not the rx/tx light. Anybody else
> > who has one of these want to point me the right way?
> > Thanks
> >
> > John
>
> I guess I didn't read 9fans archive enough... a search turned up
> some port= and irq= settings that are working for me now.
> Only problem now is how to make it connect to one network while
> I'm at school, and the other while I'm at home.

You may wish to read the Multiple Configurations section in
plan9.ini(8), I think it is what you are looking for.  Make two
configurations, one with your school settings, and the other with your
home settings.

jamie

Re: [9fans] wavelan card

[john]

> On 10/16/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
>> > I just bought an Orinoco card to use with my T22 terminal.
>> > I'm not sure what I have to do to get it working, so I thought I'd try
>> > putting the following in my plan9.ini:
>> > ether0=type=wavelan essid=geekhaus key1=<hex key>
>> > and booting, but ip/ipconfig doesn't get an address. The power light
>> > or whatever it is turns on, but not the rx/tx light. Anybody else
>> > who has one of these want to point me the right way?
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > John
>>
>> I guess I didn't read 9fans archive enough... a search turned up
>> some port= and irq= settings that are working for me now.
>> Only problem now is how to make it connect to one network while
>> I'm at school, and the other while I'm at home.
> 
> You may wish to read the Multiple Configurations section in
> plan9.ini(8), I think it is what you are looking for.  Make two
> configurations, one with your school settings, and the other with your
> home settings.
> 
> jamie


Of course! Thank you!

John

Re: [9fans] wavelan card

[Anthony Sorace]

for moving between 802.11 nets without rebooting (where the plan9.ini
config is useful), also note this line from plan9.ini(8):

// These options may be set after boot by writing to the
//device's ctl file using a space as the separator between
//option and value, e.g.
// 	echo 'key2 1d8f65c9a52d83c8e4b43f94af' >/net/ether0/0/ctl

you might wish to batch the echos up into commands "atschool" and
"athome" for reduced typing.