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Today's Topics:
1. Re: auth(2) auth_wep usage? (Axel Belinfante)
2. Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 16, Issue 18 (Unix)
3. Re: auth(2) auth_wep usage? (Russ Cox)
4. Re: New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
(Ezequiel Reyes)
5. Re: New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
(Anselm R. Garbe)
6. Re: New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550? (Russ Cox)
7. Re: New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
(Christoph Lohmann)
8. Re: New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
(Anselm R. Garbe)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:00:34 +0200
From: Axel Belinfante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] auth(2) auth_wep usage?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I got the impression I have first to push a key
to factotum, after which auth_wep picks it up.
is there a more direct way to do it?
I could not find a libarary routine to push the key
to factotum in some programmatic way.
read /sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum/wep.c
I already had done so.
factotum wep hands off the key directly to the
ethernet card so as not to reveal the secret.
i see. just curious, is there any particular reason it
only supports keys 1-3 and not 4? (adding is trivial)
it doesn't sound like that's appropriate here
so just write it directly yourself.
fully correct. turned out I already had the
control-fd to the card open...
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:09:47 +0200
From: Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 16, Issue 18
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Thanks for the tips. The Adaptec controller is based on Highpoint
yes..HP370 and while it does work in BSD it's not exactly a reliable
controller, I had it running in a RAID0 in different BSDs and it kept
giving me errors and failing with the hard disk perfectly well in
health...I just have it in my system to get up to 100, the default is 60
in this workstation and since I can't use more than two drives with the
onboard controller. I was simply looking for some speed and backup when
I originally bought it...but in the meantime I've realized that even
gmirror seems to be the better solution, sad, I always thought hardware
raid was more reliable..anyway, thanks...I'll test...
Domi
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:31:13 +0200
From: Christoph Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Good day.
There is an experimental ISO at 9grid.de[0], for testing, if VESA works
or not. It can be booted as LiveCD used for trying out Plan 9. The other
possibility is to use Drawterm[1] for connecting to 9grid and so try out
Plan 9 as user. Booting Plan 9 from the FreeBSD bootloader should work,
as there is a standard bootloader in the 9fat partition, in the Plan 9
installation, the ATA HDD should be supported by now and can be seen on
the CD boot, by the "dev A* ..." lines after "ELCR: ...". Each of them
is a IDE device, that was found.
Sincerely,
Christoph
[0] http://www.9grid.de/plan9/plan9vesa.iso.bz2
[1] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/ (drawterm-*.gz)
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:59:40 +0200
From: "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 8/12/05, Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
this PC..I don't have a spare PC left, the hard disk btw, is running off
an Adaptec 1200 H/W raid controller IDE...Is there any way to get this
I own(ed) that frking crappy controller as well, it's based on some
Highpoint 366/370 chipset, but is not detected by plan9 (including the
experimental vesa and daily ISOs of 9grid.de). When 4th Ed of plan9
was released, even Linux didn't knew that frking controller by default
- only the BSDs worked out of the box by that time.
In the meantime I throwed this controller out of the window (which you
cannot even use for RAID0 in a "hardware" setup, it is actually
incomparable with a real SCSI RAID controller) and switched back to
the onboard ide driver which is recognized by plan9 and all other
OS'es so far.
I highly recommend NOT to use any IDE-hardware-"RAID" at all...
there're better software based solutions...
Regards,
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:09:35 -0400
From: Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] auth(2) auth_wep usage?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
i see. just curious, is there any particular reason it
only supports keys 1-3 and not 4? (adding is trivial)
probably just an oversight.
russ
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:25:25 -0700
From: "Ezequiel Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I downloaded the vesa-enabled iso image, and it works well everywhere I have
tested it, being various desktop machines and my dell laptop with nvidia
card. Of course, I can only have a configuration of 1024x768x16 max (My
laptop card allows 1600x1200x32 max). I can use and install plan 9 from the
vesa iso with no video problems, but I would like to know if the iso is and
will be mantained in sync with the latest plan 9 changes so that I know I
could download it in the future and use an up to date system. I have a very
slow internet conection, I can only download the iso from time to time. Are
there plans to insert the vesa driver in the official iso? Or better, plans
to get a basic nvidia driver in the future? In the former case, I am using
it with no problems, so if it is in experimental state, it is very stable
already.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Lohmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
Good day.
There is an experimental ISO at 9grid.de[0], for testing, if VESA works
or not. It can be booted as LiveCD used for trying out Plan 9. The other
possibility is to use Drawterm[1] for connecting to 9grid and so try out
Plan 9 as user. Booting Plan 9 from the FreeBSD bootloader should work,
as there is a standard bootloader in the 9fat partition, in the Plan 9
installation, the ATA HDD should be supported by now and can be seen on
the CD boot, by the "dev A* ..." lines after "ELCR: ...". Each of them
is a IDE device, that was found.
Sincerely,
Christoph
[0] http://www.9grid.de/plan9/plan9vesa.iso.bz2
[1] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/ (drawterm-*.gz)
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:34:53 +0200
From: "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New to Plan 9, boot and install on Compaq AP550?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On 8/12/05, Ezequiel Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I downloaded the vesa-enabled iso image, and it works well everywhere I have
tested it, being various desktop machines and my dell laptop with nvidia
card. Of course, I can only have a configuration of 1024x768x16 max (My
laptop card allows 1600x1200x32 max). I can use and install plan 9 from the
vesa iso with no video problems, but I would like to know if the iso is and
will be mantained in sync with the latest plan 9 changes so that I know I
could download it in the future and use an up to date system. I have a very
slow internet conection, I can only download the iso from time to time. Are
there plans to insert the vesa driver in the official iso? Or better, plans
Yeah, please include the vesa driver asap into the official ISO. Many
interested people won't drop their attempts to get in touch with rio
after booting into text mode and nothing works...
Btw. including the radeon driver, which seems to be not available at
the moment, could also be very helpful.
Regards,
