On Jan 5, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Patryk Laurent <plaur...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Alex, >> >> I just joined the list, and so I missed your question. But I also opted for >> going with the vanilla distribution. Enjoy -- it's been pretty fun so far! >> >> Patryk >> >> >> >>> On Jan 5, 2014, at 15:54, Alex Jordan <alexander3223...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon Dec 30 21:03:24 EST 2013, alexander3223...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> Basically, would you guys recommend I try the Bell Labs >>>> distribution of Plan 9, 9front, or 9atom as my first installation? >>> Since no one seems to have an opinion on this, I'm going with the Bell >>> Labs distribution. We'll see how it goes. >>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:33 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> well let me know if i can answer any questions or fix anything. funny how >>>> we all get >>>> pigeon holed. i thought i did 9atom to support more hardware. :-) >>> Will do, thanks! > > There are a few of us that still hold out hope for the Labs > distribution. I use a locally modified version (you can find my > patches under contrib/stallion/patch in sources - some are applied, > some not). I'm fairly happy with it since I tend to hack on ARM more > than anything else these days. > > HTH, > > Steve Not to derail the discussion that this has now turned into, but it seems that the Ethernet card in the aforementioned server is too old, too esoteric, or simply hasn't had anyone around to bother writing a driver for it, and so wasn't recognized by the Bell Labs distribution or 9atom (both images downloaded today/yesterday - 1/5/14 - depending on your timezone). Do I have any other options, besides replacing the card with something known to work? I've been considering going with 9front, to see if that helps, but I'd rather stick with something as close to the Bell Labs distribution as I can get, e.g. I'd really rather use Fossil+Venti, rather than whatever 9front has. (I'd write a driver myself, but I am neither competent enough with C nor Plan 9 nor hardware interfaces to do so.) Unfortunately, I'm at my dad's house, and the affected server is at my mom's house, so I can't give more information on the specific card. But I can give details, run commands, etc. after I get home from school tomorrow. I have a full installation on the affected box, so I can run Plan 9 tools; I just can't connect to the network. Thanks.
