From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:43:43 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] laptop ethernet options In-Reply-To: <7d3530220606281736k61e22504k7d9a78c0f468d81@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 700efcfa-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 the last nec laptop i used was a versa 6030x with a pcmcia ethernet card. can you be more specific as to the model? On Wed Jun 28 20:36:56 EDT 2006, slawmaster@gmail.com wrote: > Hi everybody. > I have an old NEC laptop kicking around that I am *considering* as a Plan 9 > machine. However, it has absolutely no built-in networking devices. What is > the status of Plan 9 with regards to wifi cards and usb wifi dongles? Would > I be better off trying a card/dongle that provides wired ethernet? > The lappy is a NEC Vectra something, so if anybody has had Plan 9 working on > it, I'd like to know. > Thanks > > John > -- > TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!) >