From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ipconfig DHCP problems
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:16:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin7Jiazf1MDxQ7ik_LYIjbX3QRlq3QI-klVs2z3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikOcYkXfdDtVSKl_xBXHI3w1CqYr9J7H6OqTluY@mail.gmail.com>
I added
*nomp=1
*nobiosload=1
*nodumpstack=1
to plan9.ini, and magically
DHCP worked.
Bugs? Hardware/BIOS
problems?
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
> I've recently installed Plan 9 on a computer
> with a 3COM 3C905 CX-TXM network card.
> When I boot into the Plan 9 Live CD and run
>
> ip/ipconfig
>
> it communicates with the router and does
> the whole DHCP business just fine.
>
> However, when I boot into my newly installed
> system and run
>
> ip/ipconfig -D -d ether /net/ether0
>
> I get:
>
> ipconfig: dhcprecv: read timed out
> ...
>
> forever. So, why would DHCP work in the
> boot CD but not in the installed system?
> The binaries haven't changed; I haven't
> changed any hardware configurations.
> What's going on?
>
>
> Thanks,
> ak
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-09 22:28 Akshat Kumar
2010-07-09 22:29 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-07-10 0:39 ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-09 23:16 ` Akshat Kumar [this message]
2010-07-10 0:43 ` erik quanstrom
2010-07-10 4:02 ` ron minnich
2010-07-10 11:13 ` erik quanstrom
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