I am having trouble getting Plan 9 to recognize my ethernet card in my
embarrassingly old Dell laptop. The card is a Farallon Enet, which to the
best of my knowledge would be a 3C589 type for the purposes of plan9.ini.
I have tried some variations in plan9.ini, such as ether0=type=3C589 or
I used a December 2007 installation CD, so I'll download the latest version
and try again.
Thanks for the help!
Cheers,
jed
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:09 PM, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote:
I am having trouble getting Plan 9 to recognize my ethernet card in my
embarrassingly old Dell laptop.
I used a December 2007 installation CD, so I'll download the latest version
and try again.
The particular patch I mentioned made it into the source tree in
the fall, I think. So any relatively recent one should include it.
But I should point out that it only made it possible for the driver
to
Hi,
I am having trouble getting Plan 9 to recognize my ethernet card in my
embarrassingly old Dell laptop. The card is a Farallon Enet, which to the
best of my knowledge would be a 3C589 type for the purposes of plan9.ini.
I have tried some variations in plan9.ini, such as ether0=type=3C589 or
According to the Plan9 wiki, the above results indicate that recognition for
this card isn't built into the kernel, which leads me to my main question:
alternately, the card was not detected.
What modification(s), if any, would I need to make to the kernel config file
(9pcf)? This card type
