I used a December 2007 installation CD, so I'll download the latest version
and try again.

Thanks for the help!

Cheers,
jed

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:09 PM, <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> > I am having trouble getting Plan 9 to recognize my ethernet card in my
> > embarrassingly old Dell laptop. The card is a Farallon Enet, which to the
> > best of my knowledge would be a "3C589" type for the purposes of
> plan9.ini.
> > I have tried some variations in plan9.ini, such as ether0=type=3C589 or
> > etherX=3C589, as well as rendering 3C589 as "3c589", but to no avail.
>
> I, too, am using a Dell laptop, but with a genuine 3c589.  It's working
> fine.  After a recent patch, it doesn't even have to be listed in
> plan9.ini.
> And, I think the 3c589 is included in the distribued kernels, but don't
> quote me on that.  It sounds as if the ID string the card returns doesn't
> match what the driver is looking for.  In particular the driver is looking
> for the strings: 3C589, 3C562, and 589E.  If it doesn't find one of those,
> then it won't see it as a 589
>
> BLS
>
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