Re: [9fans] How to PXE boot with "two" DHCP servers on one network

2024-03-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Marco Feichtinger writes: > How can I pxe boot other machines, without my file server acting as dhcp se= > rver for the whole network? It might be possible, but not worth the effort. And with the blackbox DHCP server in that router, it's likely impossible. If your file server is up all the

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation is a 501(c)(3)

2023-12-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
This is great news, but just before I start throwing money your way, it would be nice to know what you're planning to do with it. Other than the announcements about the creation of the foundation itself, and now this, it as been pretty much radio silence about what you're planning to get up to.

Re: [9fans] 9p.io down?

2023-11-04 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Yaroslav K writes: > Do we know what=E2=80=99s up with 9p.io, the current sources host? Pings (v4 and 6) to nearby addresses work, so it looks like the host itself is down. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans]

2023-04-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Thaddeus Woskowiak writes: > Has anyone written any code to deal with SCPI, Standard Commands for > Programmable Instruments, on plan 9? I did a couple of years ago, for the same reason: programmable PSUs and to suck data down from an ocsilloscope. It never worked well, and I have since lost the

Re: [9fans] different users for different system roles

2023-02-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
hiro writes: > > should each system role get his own user? > > Like one user for file servers, one for auth, one for venti, and one for = > cpu > > servers. My was has always been to have a file system user and an auth server user that are used ONLY for those roles. As for CPU servers, it really

Re: [9fans] Update on RISC-V port

2023-02-01 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Waaay back in Nov 2020 Skip sent a note to the list about some preliminary work on a RISC-V port. Now that my VisionFive-2 dev board has arrived I'm itching to try to get Plan9 running on it. Has any progress been made since that last update?

[9fans] man.cat-v.org tls cert

2022-10-30 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Duckduckgo isn't happy with the above site's tls cert. Did it expire? Or is something more nefarious happening ... -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2e78a247283470f3-Mbf8b7ba6235d7be1557ceb04 Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] Perhaps someone can give me an advice ...

2022-03-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
ibrahim via 9fans writes: > While on wait I'm intending to port the freebsd bluetooth stack (netgraph) = > to plan9. I would be surprised if no one started such a project till now so= > if someone shares this goal I would be interested in a cooperative work.=20 Huh. I'd never thought about

Re: [9fans] 9P in Forth

2022-02-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Alex Musolino writes: > Seems so: https://github.com/iru-/9p4 Oh now that's slick! < 200 lines of code. Thanks for the pointer. --lyndon -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T83ca5eda689bd9be-Mc8db77714169537811f62f52

Re: [9fans] building blocks speaking 9p

2022-02-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
A short update on the RS-485 network project ... I ordered up an assortment of RS-485 "hats" and USB serial ports to play with. I also have an Axxon LF1006KB PCIe card that will go into the CPU server as the "gateway" for the 485 network. It should already work with the uartpci driver, but I'll

[9fans] 9P in Forth

2022-02-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Just curious if anyone has attempted a 9P implementation in Forth? This could be fun to play around with on things like Atmel AVRs. I've had it to -->here<-- with the Arduino programming environment, so *anything* different would be a joy :-) --lyndon --

[9fans] Installing 9legacy

2022-02-05 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
I booted 9legacy from a usb image and all is well. But ... how am I supposed to get this installed on the machine's hard drive? I can't find any sign of the installer scripts. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] 9legacy under OpenBSD's vmm

2022-02-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
When you do the initial install, interrupt the boot sequence and type console=0 as the documentation describes. Install the system as usual, then reboot and log in again using the consoole=0 dance. Once you're logged in you can mount the 9fat partition (9fs 9fat) and then edit /n/9fat/plan9.ini

Re: [9fans] building blocks speaking 9p

2022-01-29 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
A few thoughts after chewing on this for a day ... I think the major architecture components break down like this: 1) a simple protocol wrapper to enable streaming of 9p over arbitrary transports (e.g. USB, i2c, spi, rs485). 2) an addressing scheme that plugs into dial() and ndb. 3)

[9fans] aiju boards

2022-01-29 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
> The 9front /sys/src/9/zynq port is aiju board's kernel. This reminds me to ask ... what did people get up to using their aiju boards for? Sadly, mine has been sitting on the shelf collecting dust for much too long. I did some early fiddling about, mostly to learn the fpga toolchain, but then

Re: [9fans] building blocks speaking 9p

2022-01-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
da...@boddie.org.uk writes: > I am using 5a/tc/tl to build bare metal code for a STM32F405 MCU thanks > to some hints from Charles Forsyth. Could you post some notes on how you're doing that? This is something I'd like to take for a spin. --lyndon --

Re: [9fans] building blocks speaking 9p

2022-01-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Bakul Shah writes: > - make it very easy to create hardware gadgets by > providing a firmware/hardware building block that > talks 9p on the host interface side & interfaces > with device specific hardware. Amen! I've been thinking about something like this for years. My specific use case

Re: [9fans] 9legacy under OpenBSD's vmm

2022-01-17 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
David du Colombier writes: > If it works with 9front, the issue is definitely on our side. > Our Virtio drivers are very close to 9front's, so I suspect > the issue may be somewhere else. If you think that's the case then I need to build out enough local infrastructure to be able to build

Re: [9fans] 9legacy under OpenBSD's vmm

2022-01-17 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
David du Colombier writes: > I think the issue is elsewhere, since I've tried on QEMU with > both Virtio 1.0 and Virtio legacy and it worked as expected > (386 and amd64 kernels). That could very well be. vmm(4) is still relatively young, so the bug could very well be there. I think at this

Re: [9fans] 9legacy under OpenBSD's vmm

2022-01-15 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
It gets a bit further -- now it actually panics :-P : lyndon@orthanc:/u/vm; vmctl start -c clare Connected to /dev/ttyp2 (speed 115200) Boot failed: not a bootable disk PBSR... F5CD 00B2 Plan 9 from Bell Labsi8042: kbdinit failed no vga; serial console only disk loader cpu0:

Re: [9fans] 9legacy under OpenBSD's vmm

2022-01-15 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
David du Colombier writes: > I've just imported Virtio 1.0 support to 9legacy. > Lyndon, please try the latest CD image and let me know if it works for you. Hah! You beat me to it ;-) ISO downloading now, stay tuned ... -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

[9fans] 9legacy under OpenBSD's vmm

2022-01-10 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Are any of you running 9legacy under the vmm hypervisor on OpenBSD? The kernel boots, but complains that it cannot find any fixed disks and panics. I was able to boot 9front, so it looks like 9legacy's virtio drivers might be lagging a bit? --lyndon --

Re: [9fans] Alternative to fine-grained mouse usage?

2021-07-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Dworkin Muller writes: > I have physical issues with trying to perform fine-grained mouse > operations (uncontrollable small hand tremors). [ ... ] > So, my question is, are there any viable alternatives for use with Joining the conversation late ... sorry. Have you thought about mounting a

Re: [9fans] SFF 9legacy fileserver hardware

2021-04-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Steve Simon writes: > until last year I still had a dual Atom machine which worked nicely but > is a propper desktop machine even though its a mini ITX. I have at least a half dozen mini-ITX boards lying around that I can fall back on. The problem is I seem to have lost most of the cases and/or

Re: [9fans] SFF 9legacy fileserver hardware

2021-04-26 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp writes: > For the usb issue, amd64(9legacy) does not support usb mouse/keyboard, > only ps2 keyboard/mouse. Is there any such machine having PS/2 > interface around? Pretty much everything supports BIOS mapping from USB->PS/2. This is one of the many reasons I was

Re: [9fans] SFF 9legacy fileserver hardware

2021-04-26 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
hiro writes: > sure you want just one sata disk for a fileserver? or is the worm all on bl= > uray? One disk is fine for now. The blu-ray is for backing up the arenas, and yes, I'll deal with the xhci driver issues myself. (I can use slower USB ports until I get that part running.) --lyndon

[9fans] SFF 9legacy fileserver hardware

2021-04-26 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Time to build out some proper infrastructure at home, and the first order of business is the file+auth server. I don't need screaming fast performance, just something basic, and I have been looking at some of the current crop of small form factor desktops, along the lines of the Intel NUC. (But

Re: [9fans] APL

2021-02-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
tlaronde pointed me at the APL that shipped in the contrib directory in 4.3BSD. In hindsight I suspect that was the version I spun up at Athabasca U way back when (1989ish). I was quite surprised to see that a substantial chunk of it managed to compile 'out of the box' on OpenBSD 6.8 (albeit

Re: [9fans] APL

2021-02-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
o...@eigenstate.org writes: > git clone --single-branch \ > --branch Research-V4-Snapshot-Development \ I must be blind. I completely glossed over 'single-branch'. But I might have to go back to the SCCS archive on the CDs, anyway, since Spinellis' repo doesn't seem to

Re: [9fans] APL

2021-02-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Steffen Nurpmeso writes: > It can even be as small as > > #?0|kent:unix-hist$ du -sh . > 179M. > > when not including all the new FreeBSD things (for which i at > least track the FreeBSD git repository directly): Okay, so what's the magic incantation to clone just that subset of

Re: [9fans] APL

2021-02-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > There are various versions of an APL interpreter and, amongst these, > a version by Ken Thompson, Ross Harvey, Douglas Lanam. > > Is that this one you are looking for? That sounds like the one. It's entirely possible the version I started with came from one of the

[9fans] APL

2021-02-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Long ago and far away I built/ran Thompson's APL (from the V7 source tape IIRC) on one of the VAXen. This was very much pre-ANSI C code, but the Ultrix 1.1 compiler handled it fine. About 15 years ago I dusted off the source and started converting it to ANSI C, but I got distracted and have