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. 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 > > etherX=3C589, as well as rendering 3C589 as "3c589", but to no avail. > > I, too, am using a Dell laptop, but with a genuine 3c589. It's working > fine. After a recent patch, it doesn't even have to be listed in > plan9.ini. > And, I think the 3c589 is included in the distribued kernels, but don't > quote me on that. It sounds as if the ID string the card returns doesn't > match what the driver is looking for. In particular the driver is looking > for the strings: 3C589, 3C562, and 589E. If it doesn't find one of those, > then it won't see it as a 589 > > BLS > > >
