On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> a windows machine with isa slots will be available to me on tuesday. >> i'll try this out and see what happens. of course a better solution >> would be to just fork over the cash for a better card... > > Where can you even buy an ISA Ethernet (or any) card these days? I don't > even see them on Ebay or Craiglist these days.
there's no reason it needs to be isa, i have pci slots too. it's just the only card i have that qualifies as plan 9 supported hardware > As far as ISA Ethernet cards > go, in my experience the '509 was one of the most reliable ones ever made. > In the early 1990s I deployed several hundred of these in various university > workstation labs running Windows 3.11 and BSD/OS, and they just plain > worked. i wouldn't say it's a bad card, just that from what i read in the 9fans archives it seems to be troublesome on plan 9 for some reason. i've used the same card on openbsd with no problem > Referring to an earlier message in this thread, the string 'irq=nn' on the > ether0= line in the .ini file just tells the kernel what IRQ to speak to the > card on. It doesn't actually re-configure the card to use that IRQ. (The > original message was a bit ambiguous about this.) ha! well that certainly explains a lot! like i said, i don't know what i'm doing. thanks, that really helped -- m
