Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-01-30 Thread erik quanstrom
I disabled onboard nic(Marvell 88E8056), and using Intel's i82557. A curious poit is there are only six usb ports here. When I plugin any USB device on this board, system hungs. Kenji i'm don't know very much about plan 9's usb stuff but the motherboard claims more ports (12) than UsbMax

[9fans] cd booting into network

2009-01-30 Thread matt
Hi, after a while I worked out that I couldn't auth fully from the boot cd because it doesn't have /boot/factotum I chose a pc kernel and made a new bootdisk so, just for the record http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2009/01/plan9-boot-cd.html

Re: [9fans] Opinion on the Nova Lite PX20 as cpu server

2009-01-30 Thread erik quanstrom
I am planning to a get a complete small footprint computer. I found the Asus Nova Lite Px20 Is this going to be a challenging, guru level install? The ethernet card seems to be an atheros L2 so it's probably not supported. no support for the l1x, l1e or l2 atheros wired cards. i'm not

Re: [9fans] Ogg/Vorbis ported

2009-01-30 Thread erik quanstrom
As with exit(), it can be replaced automatically with exits() but you still have to figure out what message you want in your exits(). If anyone is interested, this is what I used as a compatibility shim: #include u.h #include libc.h void exit (int code) { switch (code) {

Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-01-30 Thread lucio
Some level of smartness in how block traversal is made needs to be there. That involves partitioning, which defeats the fundamental mechanics of venti. It then becomes preferable to run distinct venti services, which is the only way in which different backing stores can be used at this stage.

[9fans] [ANN] LDAP keyfs and secstore

2009-01-30 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
Hello all. In order to ease the local (JHU ACM) use of Plan 9, I have written a LDAP-based keyfs and secstore-alike (a program which consumes LDAP passwords and emits Plan 9 secrets). I figured this might be of interest to others, and so have something of a writeup available at