Re: [9front] Need help with configuring the Internet

[염준혁 <skhds1@gmail.com>]

Aside from all this, I managed to run confignet!
It was done simply by running "main" on /bin/inst.
The message I got was

"Could not find ethernet card"

This system used to run Linux and Internet worked then, so
I'm guessing it's lack of drivers or something similar. I'm going to
have to do a little more digging for this... (for one, I don't even know
which ethernet card I have on my system).

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:46 PM 염준혁 <skhds1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for your reply. It really answered everything I needed to get going.
>
> Of course, things aren't working as expected, mostly
> due to me being more familiar to Linux environments.
> I'm trying out many things, but the two most hindering
> problems at this point is the different uses of "grep" and "export".
>
> Starting with grep, what I mostly use is  :
>
> grep -ri "keyword" ./
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> Now this obviously doesn't work here, so I read the manual and tried :
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> grep -i -e "keyword" ./
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> along with some other variations, which prints out nothing currently
> (I'm trying this on /bin/inst, with the keyword being ("confignet").
> Most likely I'm not reading the manual carefully enough..
> But I thought I'd get immediate answers when I post here, if you guys
> don't mind :)
>
> The second part, "export", is the real problem for me though,
> because I don't even know where to look in this case.
> Many scripts including ndbsetup and confignet seems to use the keyword "export".
> Usually in Linux, I would just be able to use it and it will set-up the
> environment variable for me. Plan9-based systems seems to be different,
> as just naively typing in command export (or using the scripts) returns
>
> can't open export: 'export' directory entry not found
>
> I've tried "man exportfs" (that's what google shows me at least), but
> I don't think
> that was what I was looking for. In this case, just a pointer to the manual
> that explains the export mechanism would be enough for me. A suggestion to
> read the Plan9 manual is also welcome :) I'm actually considering it since I
> seem to lack too much understanding of this system right now.
>
> Again, I really thank you all for your replies (I responded late because
> there was something wrong with my delivery system.. I apologize for that).
> Like I've mentioned before, I'm a novice in not only Plan9 systems, but
> for programming and computer things in general. So please understand
> when I ask for obvious questions, quite like this one.
>
> Thank you,
> Joonhyeok Yeom
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> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 2:00 PM <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, newbie here.
> > >
> > > I've installed 9front for 64bit (I did the cross-compiling too), but
> > > there was some failure during "confignet", so the internet overall is
> > > not working (cat /net/ndb returns nothing).
> > >
> > > I thought at that time that I can just run that later, but I am having
> > > trouble doing so. Also, since I just bypassed that part, I can't
> > > recall the message for it.
> > >
> > > So my question boils down to :
> > >
> > > 1. Can I run confignet again AFTER installation? If there is, can you
> > > point me to the right methods?
> >
> >
> > I've never done re-run the installer after installation, but it's still
> > around:
> >
> >         ls /bin/inst/
> >
> > Note that inst/confignet only sets some environment variables for
> > future steps to run, but doesn't actually save them. That appears to
> > be done in
> >
> >         inst/ndbsetup
> >
> > Inst/ndbsetup appends a line to /lib/ndb/local. On my system, that line
> > looks somewhat like:
> >
> >         sys=meathoook ether=560001dbcf68
> >
> > > 2. I am unsure of how I can diagnosis the network problem when the
> > > installation itself failed, so a direction of where to look might be
> > > nice.
> >
> > Take a look at 'man ipconfig', which is used for configuring your
> > network cards. Running it manually should give you either a working
> > network or some errors that can be debugged.
> >
> > > Re-installing won't really be a problem right now, as I haven't done
> > > anything that extensive in my current system. So I am considering that
> > > as an option, although I'm feeling a little bit too lazy for it.
> >
> > You also learn more from fixing a broken system.
> >
> > > Also, I'm new to mailing lists in general (I am not an expert
> > > programmer and my current job is to write Javascripts for a web
> > > page...), and this is basically my first mail to any mailing lists, so
> > > please understand if I'm doing something wrong.
> >
> > Nope. Nothing wrong.
> >
> > > Anyways, thanks in advance! I'm looking forward to tinkering with my
> > > new 9front system :)
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Joonhyeok Yeom.
> >