From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Richard C Bilson Message-ID: Subject: [9fans] rtl8139 woes Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:13:02 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 83a67d98-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I was hoping to get through the install without needing to ask for help, and I succeeded -- I was especially impressed by how easy it was to download the distribution over the network (through a rtl8139 connected to a cable modem). Then I tried to start the network. No luck. My cable provider gives all net configuration through DHCP, which was enough to configure WinXP, Debian, and the Plan 9 install without any further thought. Uncommenting the ip/ipconfig line in /rc/bin/termrc didn't enable the network. Running ip/ipconfig on its own reports: ip/ipconfig: binding device: '/net/ether0' cs: file does not exist and, indeed, there is no /net/ether0 file. Adding "ether0=type=rtl8139" to /n/9fat/plan9.ini doesn't fix the problem, but when I do this the boot process does print "ether#0 : rtl8139 : port..." along with various configuration information that looks basically correct. This is the line that prints before "found 9pcdisk". I haven't yet edited my /lib/ndb/local file to describe the local interface, since it seems that most of the information I would specify there ought to be obtained from DHCP -- I'm trying to set the system up stand-alone (no cpu, auth, fs). I don't know if I'm right here -- reading the Wiki didn't really clear this up for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated. - Richard