Re: [9fans] Re: Time for 9? :-)

[Ron Minnich <rminnich@p9f.org>]

Ori, it sounds like I need to read the manual more often :-)


On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM Skip Tavakkolian
<skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 9front added -p (ost) to sysinfo
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> https://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/89017223e127f17dd7b3b3ce2c250ade8bd1655f/rc/bin/sysinfo/f.html
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>
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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 8:13 AM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "#l1: file does not exist: 'lib/firmware/iwm-7265-17'"
>> at the bottom of your screen
>>
>> I always have a window at the bottom running
>> cat /dev/kprint
>> so I can see those messages, and not have it trash my screen.
>>
>> You are missing firmware, which you have to get from a separate place, and which needs to end up in /sys/lib/firmware, iirc (not near my Plan 9 system at present).
>>
>> Last time I looked, there are not commands on Plan 9 that "upload ... information to ... servers"
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>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM Michael Jensen <mikethe1wheelnut@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Thank you enormously for your help.
>>>
>>> term% ip/ipconfig
>>> term% sysinfo -p
>>>
>>> this gives:
>>>
>>> 1) near the bottom of the s creen where there is no window:
>>>
>>> #l1: file does not exist: 'lib/firmware/iwm-7265-17'
>>>
>>> 2) timewise after that, directly below the term% sysinfo -p,
>>>
>>> http://sysinfo.9front.org/src/646/body
>>>
>>> ..now.. that might already have auto-submitted a bunch of information to your servers..  if that is the case.. well.. you are the masters.. ;-)  ..hats off to you.. :-)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Quoth Michael Jensen <mikethe1wheelnut@gmail.com>:
>>>> > 5) get a browser working on 9front, and from there use the suggested
>>>> > program.  I will acknowledge that I have not fully explored this option
>>>> > yet.  When I say this, I mostly mean that I have found
>>>> > https://helpful.cat-v.org/Blog/2019/12/05/0/ , but in, shall we say,
>>>> > classic 9front style, I expect it to require extensive research to figure
>>>> > out whether any of the suggested solutions will actually work, and how much
>>>> > effort they take.
>>>>
>>>> you don't need a browser;
>>>>
>>>>         ip/ipconfig # get on the network
>>>>         sysinfo -p      # upload information about the system
>>>>
>>>> that should tell us what hardware you have.
>>>>
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