From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:12:55 -0600 From: "Latchesar Ionkov" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <86582FBA-8834-4094-93D6-2A150E53097C@kix.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10809021609l56513b8u6c287c01fcb89f55@mail.gmail.com> <0a4ac85af523905c8cd1aa93d5f3f302@9netics.com> <13426df10809022042v597800f7g9b974a1f3bc377fe@mail.gmail.com> <71098d81e160f5eaaa9f5bf3e3df2d4a@coraid.com> <556FFDE7-C870-4788-81CD-9DB34358DD60@kix.in> <86582FBA-8834-4094-93D6-2A150E53097C@kix.in> Subject: Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0c4754e4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 there are more people working on stop-gap solutions than drivers so I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the drivers to be written :) On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote: > On 03-Sep-08, at 7:45 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >>>>> >>>>> for me, it's the same thing over and over again. drivers. >>>> >>>> what drivers are the problem? >>> >>> Any ethernet or video card that Plan 9 doesn't support (there are >>> plenty). >> >> surely you don't own *all* the unsupported cards? > > No, but I use a Macbook Pro, and I have friends who would like to run Plan 9 > but can't because of the hardware they own. Think of Glendix as a stop-gap > solution until they get new hardware or until more drivers are written for > Plan 9 :-) > > -- > Anant > > >