From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Hi together | a few newbie questions From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:24:07 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 327f73e8-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > The only thing i really miss is perl, but well seems i have to port it ;-). Perl is ported. See /n/sources/extra/perl.iso.bz2 > from Lucent. I compiled wavelan into my kernel, the kernel also detects > the wavelan IF on startup, but i can't find the device. > Do i have to make a device like in Linux and Solaris ? It should be /net/ether0 in your namespace. If not, does ls -l '#l' produce anything useful? > Also my /rc/bin/cpurc (i edited like the doku sais) does not seems > to be read/executet, at least there is not network conectivity after startup. > If i do it by hand on a term (like the example in ipconfig manpage) > it works and i can ping hosts, resolve dns names. Perhaps you are booting a terminal kernel (which uses /rc/bin/termrc)? > Also i would like to know how to mount a floppy disk (e.g. the install disk, > to have a look at plan9.ini on there) a: ls -l /n/a: > Is there any more docu around (or maybe a good book) will help me to get settled in > with plan9 ? The wiki is supposed to be the source for such things, though it's necessarily incomplete. I don't think there are any books. Russ