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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?
Date: Mon,  6 Jan 2014 08:29:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c83ace87ba402a813d8c156d30d47f6c@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E339D97B-4174-4DDB-BB1E-17D68CB0DF8C@gmail.com>

> Not to derail the discussion that this has now turned into, but it
> seems that the Ethernet card in the aforementioned server is too old,
> too esoteric, or simply hasn't had anyone around to bother writing a
> driver for it, and so wasn't recognized by the Bell Labs distribution
> or 9atom (both images downloaded today/yesterday - 1/5/14 - depending
> on your timezone).  Do I have any other options, besides replacing the
> card with something known to work?  I've been considering going with
> 9front, to see if that helps, but I'd rather stick with something as
> close to the Bell Labs distribution as I can get, e.g.  I'd really
> rather use Fossil+Venti, rather than whatever 9front has.  (I'd write
> a driver myself, but I am neither competent enough with C nor Plan 9
> nor hardware interfaces to do so.) Unfortunately, I'm at my dad's
> house, and the affected server is at my mom's house, so I can't give
> more information on the specific card.  But I can give details, run
> commands, etc.  after I get home from school tomorrow.  I have a full
> installation on the affected box, so I can run Plan 9 tools; I just
> can't connect to the network.  Thanks.

the output of "pci | grep net" should be enough.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-06 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-31  2:02 Alex Jordan
2013-12-31  2:07 ` Alex Jordan
2013-12-31  4:33 ` erik quanstrom
2014-01-05 23:54   ` Alex Jordan
2014-01-06  0:03     ` Patryk Laurent
2014-01-06  4:03       ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-06  4:36         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-01-06  4:41           ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-06  4:53             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-01-06  5:01               ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-06  5:09                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-01-06  5:13                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2014-01-06  5:16                     ` Steven Stallion
2014-01-06  5:28                   ` Patryk Laurent
2014-01-06  5:12                 ` Bruce Ellis
2014-01-06 15:35               ` a
2014-01-06 16:40                 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-01-06 16:54                   ` Anthony Sorace
2014-01-06 17:21                     ` lucio
2014-01-06 17:09                   ` tlaronde
2014-01-06 17:25                     ` lucio
2014-01-06 20:13                   ` Kurt H Maier
2014-01-06  4:42           ` balaji
2014-01-06 20:05           ` Kurt H Maier
2014-01-06  7:08         ` Alex Jordan
2014-01-06  7:39           ` cinap_lenrek
2014-01-06  7:49             ` Alex Jordan
2014-01-06 10:48               ` Paul Clark
2014-01-06 17:29               ` Dave Eckhardt
2014-01-06 12:20             ` Richard Miller
2014-01-06 13:29           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-01-07  6:58             ` Alex Jordan
2014-01-07  8:32               ` Andrés Domínguez
2014-01-07 14:00               ` erik quanstrom

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