From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:29:10 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <33e2329fe3abd2d9d6341fe723cf76e2@brasstown.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors? Topicbox-Message-UUID: ae8e5a6e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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