From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <72b9b7fd1c8395d1a04a5282d43b9eff@quanstro.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Consindering eBox-4854 for Plan9 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:38:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 54a32ade-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The eBox-4854 box features Realtek RTL8100B 10/100 Base-T Ethernet. > This is not listed on the Plan9 hardware compatiblilty page. Perusing > online forums suggests that this adapter can be driven on some Linux > distros with 8139too. How likely is Plan9 to similary drive this > ethernet adapter? should work with the 8139 driver. > It also features integrated VIA UniChrome Pro II video to which the > Plan9 hardware compatibility page suggests it can be driven in VESA > mode. However, I do not know if there are key differences between > UniChrome and UniChrome Pro II that would prevent this. Are there any > such differences? Notwithstanding said differences, at what maximum > resolution would Plan9 enable on this adapter? vesa mode works. unichrome II is propritary and you can't get the programming docs without an nda. > Rather than a traditional hard disk, the eBox-4854 fits an IDE Flash > SDD. I imagine that this would pose no problem for Plan9, since such > devices usually internally manage translation from Flash to standard > IDE. Am I about right in this assumption? this might be a problem. these boxes typically have 30 or 40w power supplies. you might not have enough juce to run a hard drive. but we use similar machines for terminals. - erik