I&#39;m working through the Plan 9 documentation at <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/documentation/index.html" target="_blank">http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/documentation/index.html</a>.<br><br>I&#39;m running Plan 9 in QEMU in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.<br>

<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">qemu plan9jim.img -k en-us -no-reboot<br></blockquote><br>I have to wait a few seconds before responding to each prompt, to avoid having it freeze and losing the keyboard and mouse.<br>

<br><b>Network Configuration</b><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">term% ip/ipconfig<br></blockquote><br>&quot;ether8390 dummyrr timeout; assuming nodummyrr&quot;<br>

<br>- whatever that means.<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">term% ndb/dns -r<br>term% ip/ping 192.168.0.1<br>sending 32 64 byte messages 1000 ms apart to icmp!192.168.0.1!<br>
lost 0<br>lost 1<br>. . .<br>lost 31<br>32 out of 32 messages lost<br></blockquote><br>Too bad. Some of the instructions in the documentation, and some of the ideas in the responses to my posts, depend on being connected to the network and the Internet.<br>