Re: [9fans] two questions about go in Plan 9

2013-02-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
In order to deal with Conn types, you're supposed to just use the interface's functions. Unfortunately, Conn's Close() simply closes the associated fd. I think in general, this is fine. For the Listener, a Close() will do the hangup. I'm updating the net package implementation for Plan 9, so new i

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-19 Thread Akshat Kumar
Both upas and nupas die instantly on my mail box. I've gotten tired of filtering through my mail for (n)upas choking hazards. What frail software. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:51 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:08 PM,   wrote: >>> Is there any way to read gmail from plan9?  Over S

Re: [9fans] Mercurial port is official

2012-05-03 Thread Akshat Kumar
This hasn't been working for me, with codereview. In particular, when hg tries to upload data to the codereview server, I get an exception (on the first `change' or subsequent `upload' commands): term% hg upload 6031056 Mon Apr 30 12:37:16 2012 loading CL 6031056 Mon Apr 30 12:37:

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
Shouldn't the top one be: Select->Cut->Paste ? The "Cut" does the snarfing. There is no way (that I know) to simply "Snarf" with a mouse. Moreover, I feel that the top two should be joined a the "Select" vertex, like in the original. This is a great representation. On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:08

Re: [9fans] [kenfs] the mercurial repo problem

2012-02-02 Thread Akshat Kumar
es index file). ak On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > This is a problem perhaps two of us > have on Plan 9 (hi Erik): mercurial > repositories contain files with long > names and/or spaces. > > I realised that `lnfs' is a neat solution > to this proble

[9fans] [kenfs] the mercurial repo problem

2012-02-02 Thread Akshat Kumar
This is a problem perhaps two of us have on Plan 9 (hi Erik): mercurial repositories contain files with long names and/or spaces. I realised that `lnfs' is a neat solution to this problem (though you have to remember to run it each time you're in the repo) for the time-being. In particular, it doe

[9fans] gigabit rtl8169

2012-01-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
I have a gigabit Realtek 8169 ethernet port. Plan 9 shows: "#l0: rtl8169: 100Mbps ..." Does this really mean that we are operating on 100Mbps? If so, what are the issues with going up to 1000Mbps? My switch shows that the connectivity is at gigabit... Thanks, ak

Re: [9fans] Intel X4500 Integrated Graphics support

2012-01-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
It is indeed weird that we see two video devices. I'm still not sure what that's about. But just for the record, I've updated to the latest 9pc kernel (build on Oct. 12, 2011 iirc), and the performance is far better. :-) I also tried 9pcatom, and the performance is great there as well. The only c

Re: [9fans] is there a distributed filesystem

2012-01-20 Thread Akshat Kumar
>> is there a distributed filesystem from plan 9 that i could compile under p9p >> and use on linux? >> >> the problem at hand: i want a hot spare  DHCP server at my LAN; i'm currently >> using dnsmasq. to achieve synchronization of leases i need to synchronize at >> least one file between two serv

[9fans] vga problems on vmware player

2011-12-24 Thread Akshat Kumar
The host system is a Thinkpad X200s running Windows 7. Its highest native screen resolution is 1280x800 (not sure if I got the WXGA+ which could make that 1440x900). I have it connected to a monitor, running on 1280x1024x32. If I run the Plan 9 kernel in VMWare Player and choose a vgasize of 1152x

Re: [9fans] Intel X4500 Integrated Graphics support

2011-12-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
I will also try 9atom. Here is the `pci -v' output: 0.0.0: brg 06.00.00 8086/2a40 0 Intel Corporation 0.2.0: vid 03.00.00 8086/2a42 11 0:f204 4194304 1: 16 2:d00c 268435456 3: 16 4:1801 16 Intel Corporation Mobile Intel 4 Series Chipset Family I

Re: [9fans] Intel X4500 Integrated Graphics support

2011-12-20 Thread Akshat Kumar
I have tried 1280x800x32 on the laptop and 1280x1024x16 and 1280x1024x32 on a monitor connected to the laptop via VGA. In all cases, the result is a very, very incredibly slow and choppy rio. I'm using the stock Plan 9 kernel (with a patch for IL (*shakes fist at the 'Labs*)). ak On Tue, Dec 20

[9fans] Intel X4500 Integrated Graphics support

2011-12-19 Thread Akshat Kumar
My Thinkpad X200s has an Intel X4500 card, but vga(3) defaults to using vesa. Has anyone added any support for this card lately? Or is there any other vga `type' that can be set in /dev/vgactl, which would offer better performance than vesa, for this card? Thanks, ak

Re: [9fans] Christmas greetings and a small e-present from ++pac (me)

2011-12-19 Thread Akshat Kumar
If this is the old Christmas virus redux, then beware! my glenda may be fragile, but she is no fool On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > Dearest Folks, > > >    I would like to wish you all a peaceful Christmas and a well-lived > (unsure whether this is the correct w

Re: [9fans] troff book

2011-12-02 Thread Akshat Kumar
I've written some math papers in troff. I spent less time doing math and more time tinkering with troff, to get things to show up properly. LaTeX looks prettier still, but handling UTF-8 in the source goes a long way towards legibility (especially if you have to come back to it after a while). I a

Re: [9fans] acme: copy selection to new window

2011-11-27 Thread Akshat Kumar
I believe you have to keep the addr file open, while you are making changes to it (through ctl or otherwise) and while you read from the data file. ak On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Jacek Masiulaniec wrote: > In plan9port acme, I'd like a command to copy selected text into new window. > Here'

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-21 Thread Akshat Kumar
What are the problems with trying to boot it natively (by the way, you probably won't be able to drive the wireless card, if you do get it to boot native)? Have you tried Erik Quanstro's 9atom kernel? ak On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Anton wrote: > Hello all, > Recently I've discovered Plan

Re: [9fans] Errata and Addendum: A standard also sucks if it includes the word "advanced"

2011-11-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
If applying the A does the latter, then I'd say it's nilpotent of degree 2. On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, ron minnich wrote: > Or just do something like this: > A^2PCIC > > Either way, it must be really really great! > > Or maybe it just really really sucks. I vote for the latter. So we > have

Re: [9fans] hg 1.7.5

2011-11-08 Thread Akshat Kumar
It would be nice, if possible, to have the mercurial sources sitting on their own, in /sys/src/cmd/hg the way that the old mercurial version had it setup. Just fits in the tree better that way. Akshat

Re: [9fans] 9p devdraw

2011-11-03 Thread Akshat Kumar
Thanks for this - I often wonder where to find the code behind the papers in IWP9 proceedings. ak On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:29 PM, yy wrote: > Two attached files: > > - 9p-srv.c is a devdraw(1) version which uses 9pclient(3) to talk with > Plan 9-like devices and use them for its windows. > >

Re: [9fans] hg on plan 9

2011-10-27 Thread Akshat Kumar
Ah, I wonder if that was the problem when I was trying trfs with ramfs. On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:10 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > you can also use ramfs instead of hgfs.  you may need > the 9atom version which allows unlimited files. > > - erik > >

Re: [9fans] hg on plan 9

2011-10-27 Thread Akshat Kumar
I made a change to hg: mercurial/store.py: in def _buildencodefun(): -win_reserved = [ord(x) for x in '\\:*?"<>|'] +win_reserved = [ord(x) for x in '\\:*?"<>| '] in def _build_lower_encodefun(): -win_reserved = [ord(x) for x in '\\:*?"<>|'] +win_reserved = [ord(x) for x in '\\:*?"

Re: [9fans] Sad News

2011-10-24 Thread Akshat Kumar
Why a mathematician, in particular? I'd hack off... well, nevermind. Here's what snopes had to say about it: http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp In this case, I'd rewrite the penultimate line: "Whenever a man's motivations for a course of action aren't clear, attributing them to something [ma

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread Akshat Kumar
abaco is free. :-) > Although for my money abaco is still really neat ... > > ron

Re: [9fans] mail client; general question web vs command

2011-08-03 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Russ Cox wrote: >>> If anyone does this, I also suggest using Russ' rc version >>> (ported to Plan 9) of Acme Mail, instead of adapting the C >>> code. > > russ has an rc version of acme mail? > > russ Take the hint, Russ!

Re: [9fans] mail client; general question web vs command

2011-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
On 7/31/11, Jacob Todd wrote: > Acme has Mail. It doesn't do threading like mutt or anything, but it works. Robert Raschke coded a threaded version of Acme's News. But that depends on the filesystem hierarchy of messages in nntpfs. (n)upasfs does not thread messages at the level of the fs. Indeed

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-12 Thread Akshat Kumar
This goes in with all those Ayn Rand novels I never read. All of them. ak On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:

Re: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server

2011-07-11 Thread Akshat Kumar
That's a much more expensive and involved method than tacking on a little USB key, to which you've copied nvram data using `dd'. ron's method above, with a simple `dd -if nvram -of /dev/sdU0.0/data' and three lines in plan9.ini did the trick. No rotating disks. The other problem is that my box ha

Re: [9fans] fs(3) for pseudo partitions

2011-07-10 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:05 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > there are several simple options > - write a little sd driver.  see sdloop(3) for > a prototype. Ah, so such a thing can't be done simply with some fs(3) configuration? The sd driver would concatenate the specified list of files, and keep

[9fans] fs(3) for pseudo partitions

2011-07-10 Thread Akshat Kumar
For AoE reasons, I need to combine a mirror (of a partition of a disk and a whole disk) with another partition of a disk, in a way that the combination looks like a disk in itself. Has anyone tried such a thing with fs(3)? I have a mirror: mirror m0 /dev/sdD1/data /dev/sdC0/worm at /dev/fs/m0, a

[9fans] Fwd: nvram on a diskless cpu server

2011-07-10 Thread Akshat Kumar
e name" mean in this case? #u/ep... or #S/sdU...? Thanks, ak On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > write to the raw disk, and use the device name for nvram in plan9.ini > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Akshat Kumar > wrote: >> Sure, b

Re: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server

2011-07-10 Thread Akshat Kumar
Sure, but how do mounting and reading and all that jazz, work on boot? On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:13 PM, ron minnich wrote: > yeah, the usb would be a great place to store it! Then you can easily > rewrite the key ... > > ron > >

Re: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server

2011-07-10 Thread Akshat Kumar
Well, I don't have a dedicated AoE for secure keys. Alternatively, can I store the keys on a little USB device? Does it require anything more than a change to the INI (in this case PXE) file? On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Jul 10 17:56:42 EDT 2011, rminn...@gmail

Re: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server

2011-07-10 Thread Akshat Kumar
It seems Andrey did this some time ago as well: http://mirtchovski.com/lanlp9/flash/index.html Are there any patches in the repo that have survived this? I know that for SPARC computers #r/nvram is the place to look. Perhaps the story on x86 machines is a bit more difficult? Thanks, ak On Sun,

[9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server

2011-07-10 Thread Akshat Kumar
I just took all the disks out of my cpu server. I'm booting from my fileserver. I get the following prompts (which make the bootup process really non-automated): readnvram: couldn't find nvram can't open : unknown device in # filename authid: bootes authdom: mydom secstore: password: can't write

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on VIA C7

2011-07-07 Thread Akshat Kumar
SB600 seems to support AHCI. Could you name some mobos based on SB600, that you use? On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:00 AM, wrote: > it didnt support ahci. > > -- > cinap > >

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on VIA C7

2011-07-07 Thread Akshat Kumar
Is the VIA C7 too old to support AHCI? That is, do you have to emulate SATA as IDE? Best, ak On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:21 PM, wrote: > had a via c7 machine once and i had problems with ide and sata. > > gave spontanious i/o errors if you use multiple drives and sata > was emulated as ide. > >

[9fans] Plan 9 on VIA C7

2011-07-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Looking to get the following motherboard: Jetway VIA C7 1.5GHz CN700 It would work well to house 2 IDE and 1 SATA drives. Has anyone tried Plan 9 on this, before I commit $100 to it? Thanks, ak

Re: [9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem

2011-06-24 Thread Akshat Kumar
as a NAS. Along with cinap's cifsd or Newsham's filesystem for windows, or your friendly modern unix options, this works well in a heterogeneous network setup as well. Best, Akshat

Re: [9fans] partitioning with prep(8)

2011-06-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
I made a typo: a other > start sector: 11739138 > end [11739138..78155217] > > However, I can, by hand, type in > > echo part other 11739138 89904498 > /dev/sdC0/ctl I meant: echo part other 11739201 98804561 > /dev/sdC0/ctl (because plan9 partition is offset 63 from the beginning of the d

[9fans] partitioning with prep(8)

2011-06-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
I created plan9 subpartitions on my disk and wanted to remove one and make two new ones. Here's the scheme (500 GB hdd, all of it plan9 partition, 512 byte sectors): 9fat 0-24800 nvram 204800-204801 fscfg 204801-204802 fs 204802-10690562 swap 10690562-11739138 empty 11739138-89904498 worm 89904498

Re: [9fans] Boot into sources?

2011-06-12 Thread Akshat Kumar
oblem there, but I bypassed this with hard-set settings, in any case. TL;DR: I can boot into sources /plan9 repo now. Best, ak On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > My local KenFS server went down quite badly > today, with the error: > > cwio: write induced dump error

[9fans] Boot into sources?

2011-06-12 Thread Akshat Kumar
My local KenFS server went down quite badly today, with the error: cwio: write induced dump error - r cache and then the boot floppy I made for it, can't seem to boot the box into KenFS. The server serves as my local root fs for all my terminals, cpus, virtual machines, etc.. So these things don'

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
http://www.schubart.net/archives/2004/01/31/worlds-most-expensive-apple-juice Go a tad less and you can get the unfermented kind - though not grape. On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:27 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: >> 20$ for a juice? > > most likely fermented. > >

Re: [9fans] kfs: i'm not dead yet!

2011-05-12 Thread Akshat Kumar
I use kfs (not kenfs) on old edge nodes that serve as relays, nameservers, and provide other basic services, but are otherwise too limited to be able to handle the abuse of fossil. I also use it on my headless Acer Aspire One that runs as an auth server at home. Best, ak On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at

Re: [9fans] /dev/draw and c, rc, ruby, python, go

2011-04-11 Thread Akshat Kumar
Even on Plan 9 proper (that is, bare hardware? how about virtualized on qemu or VMWare, etc.)? ak On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:49 PM, ron minnich wrote: > Hi, it's me, the repeating person (I almost said "broken record" but > I'm not sure how many people know what that means any more :-) > > Sugge

Re: [9fans] troff fonts

2011-02-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
What I think would be useful, would be to backport the abilities of > the Heirloom troff to work with T1, Truetype, OpenType fonts directly. > > R > > > On 17 February 2011 09:49, Akshat Kumar wrote: >> I'm trying to use the UnivMath6 fonts >> in order to get a Blac

[9fans] troff fonts

2011-02-17 Thread Akshat Kumar
I'm trying to use the UnivMath6 fonts in order to get a Blackboard bold D in troff, so I issue: .fp 6 M6 UnivMath6 but when it comes to postscript, it complains: converting from troff to postscript... /386/bin/aux/tr2post: :76 :WARNING: cannot open file /sys/lib/postscript/troff/UnivMath6 /386/b

Re: [9fans] RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
Somehow a particular problem with a particular application has degenerated into a rather unfair generalization of the whole system: > Reading about Plan 9, I was quite excited to install it.  I was quite > excited when I first booted and ran it, too.  But I distinctly felt my > heart sink a little

Re: [9fans] PUSH sources for Plan 9

2011-01-29 Thread Akshat Kumar
in exercising it ping me > offlist. > > Noah > > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Akshat Kumar > wrote: >> Is "broken!" the default prompt, or am I >> seeing some error here? A primitive >> grep of the source files didn't reveal >> an

Re: [9fans] PUSH sources for Plan 9

2011-01-27 Thread Akshat Kumar
Perhaps I should try the test/ dir first... Thanks! ak On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Akshat Kumar > wrote: >> Yes, I've seen this. This is the port to Plan 9 Ports. >> I would like the code for Plan 9. I im

Re: [9fans] PUSH sources for Plan 9

2011-01-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
Yes, I've seen this. This is the port to Plan 9 Ports. I would like the code for Plan 9. I imagine reproducing will make things uglier than the original. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: > http://code.google.com/p/push/ > >

[9fans] PUSH sources for Plan 9

2011-01-26 Thread Akshat Kumar
Are the sources for the PUSH shell available for Plan 9 proper? It seems as though it was originally conceived on Plan 9, then ported to UNIX-compat systems via P9P. I couldn't find the Plan 9 sources on the Google Code repo. It would be nice to just be able to compile and go. Thanks, ak

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
what's the form factor? On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Jan 15 04:25:22 EST 2011, st...@quintile.net wrote: >> Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, >> dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most >> electronics dieing of old age. > > is that lifet

Re: [9fans] plan9 compatible notebook

2011-01-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
I've tried Thinkpad models X200s, X201, and X300 with Plan 9. Each of them PXE booted over ethernet (with the Intel cards) and using the local file server as root fs. Graphics, input, etc. work very well and Plan 9 runs very smoothly here. I haven't tried sound or anything. I boot into Plan 9 on m

Re: [9fans] Need help on installing Google Go for The Plan 9 Operating system

2011-01-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
It should compile/install (via debian packages) on linuxemu in Plan 9, just fine. Then you can program, compile, execute all in one rio space. ak On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > I don't believe there is a way to build go on plan9. You have to build it on > a Linux bo

Re: [9fans] is this crazy?

2011-01-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
I have this exact thing. Direct from China. It has a terribly slow interface, heats up during calls, and runs out of battery during actual call times, like no other. It's good if all you care about is the "smart" part of "smart phone". Not much of a phone. Stickin' with my Motofone. ak On Sat

Re: [9fans] kerTeX install and setup

2011-01-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
. And I feel it shouldn't produce a transcript log by default (and place it in the current dir). Perhaps consider a command-line option for that? On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > Dæmonic soufflés have no rôle in naïve œvres. > > I decided to try kerTeX on Plan 9 e

[9fans] kerTeX install and setup

2011-01-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
Dæmonic soufflés have no rôle in naïve œvres. I decided to try kerTeX on Plan 9 earlier today. I'm a bit displeased with the installation procedure. Firstly, would the maintainer perhaps consider putting this package up as a contrib install (using fgb's contrib suite)? This would make the process

Re: [9fans] need feedback: bibTeX users?

2010-12-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
Does your TeX package include some LaTeX implementation for Plan 9 as well? Best, ak On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM, wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:34:38PM +, Christian Neukirchen wrote: >> tlaro...@polynum.com writes: >> >> > 3) Is there now a non WEB based implementation?---in this

Re: [9fans] cifsd

2010-09-21 Thread Akshat
Just for the official record: cifsd works perfectly fine with Windows 7. Cinap's approach to the problem of packet-based protocols is elegant, efficient, and through the invent of printf-alike functions, fits well with the Plan 9 programming suite/style. Well done. ak On Sep 20, 2010, at 2

Re: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters

2010-09-12 Thread Akshat
, 2010, at 12:38, Rudolf Sykora wrote: On 12 September 2010 20:25, Akshat wrote: If you like the cleanliness and simplicity of troff files for writing papers, and would like to avoid the hideousness of TeX, then you might want to try Lout. I ported it to Plan 9 earlier this year and just

Re: [9fans] troff fonts with special characters

2010-09-12 Thread Akshat
If you like the cleanliness and simplicity of troff files for writing papers, and would like to avoid the hideousness of TeX, then you might want to try Lout. I ported it to Plan 9 earlier this year and just copied it to my contrib: contrib/akumar/lout.tgz Best of luck, ak On Sep 12, 2010

Re: [9fans] Today's SecureNet Key

2010-09-12 Thread Akshat
Is there any way to have the auth server require netkey only when connections are from outside the local network? Thanks, ak On Sep 12, 2010, at 6:49, Charles Forsyth wrote: when i can't use cpu and secstore to log in directly, i use netkey. there are non-Plan9 implementations of netkey. i

[9fans] Today's SecureNet Key

2010-09-12 Thread Akshat
The Plan 9 manual still contains the securenet(8) manpage and several reference to this old hardware. I would like to get it, but it seems Digital Pathways (or AssureNet Pathways) products are no longer available anywhere (they would now be part of Symantec, which is not really in the busin

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-08 Thread Akshat
On Sep 8, 2010, at 12:08 AM, "Lawrence E. Bakst" wrote: It's probably time to move past "lp". They don't exist much anymore in the real world. Sorry, how is this formatting issue the fault of 'lp', exactly? ak

Re: [9fans] sharing the ndb(6) database

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Hi Lucio, Thanks for your message! I tried to reply to you directly, but got the following error when I sent you my message: > Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: > > lu...@proxima.alt.za > > Technical details of permanent failure: > Google tried to deliver your messag

[9fans] sharing the ndb(6) database

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
My new auth server is completely standalone: it uses the kfs file system and boots off its own (solid state) disk. The rest of the network, for which it performs the authentication tasks, is based on a separate file server node. The auth server also runs dhcpd, tftpd, and a dns server. As such, its

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
Just for the sake of completeness, here is some information about the disk in question: cpu% cat /dev/sdD0/ctl inquiry SSDPAMM0008G1 config 044A capabilities 2B00 dma 00550010 dmactl rwm 1 rwmctl 0 model SSDPAMM0008G1 serial CVPA8276824Q2 firmVer2.I0H featlba nop geometry 15761

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:40 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > that doesn't look exactly like anything that plan > 9 prints.  perhaps it printed one of these two > messages? > >        (Bad format or )?I/O error >        Press a key to reboot... I don't see anything like that - perhaps there is some key

[9fans] Multiple auth servers

2010-09-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
I recently added an auth server to my network. For internal connections, my terminals connect directly to that auth server with the local domain (authdom=hetero). However, for incoming connections from remote clients (outside the local network), instead of using trampoline(1) to forward requests on

[9fans] Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One

2010-09-05 Thread Akshat Kumar
I tried installing Plan 9 on the Acer Aspire One, after having checked that I can boot into it via PXE. I used erik's 9atom2.iso. However, without having touched the mbr, when trying to boot off the disk, it simply hung after BIOS POST. Then, having tried disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdD0/data (yes,

Re: [9fans] too many system calls.

2010-09-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
Is ratrace usable on native Plan 9 (I understand it's in use on 9vx thus far)? I don't see a /proc/n/syscall file for any of my processes; is there some kernel patch for this? Thanks, ak On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:14 PM, ron minnich wrote: > Glibc /bin/date on Linux runs around 140 system calls.

Re: [9fans] kw IC

2010-09-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:47 PM, ron minnich wrote: > They have the added advantage of the exponent after the I. > > Reminds me of the degrees of infinity. > > So instead of sucketh-null, I guess they are sucketh-1? Ron, the suck is uncountable ak

Re: [9fans] 8086 Interpreter

2010-09-03 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > I wrote 8i.  If you keep poking around in contrib/rsc > you'll also find 86a and 86b which are different variants > of an 8086 assembler. Ah, I'm sorry for miscrediting! I grabbed both 86a and 86b - it seems that some code is missing from 86a: mai

[9fans] 8086 Interpreter

2010-09-03 Thread Akshat Kumar
I've recently had the need for a very simple 8086 interpreter, with which I can do some assembly testing (so it should allow me to enter the basic opcodes and their operands, such as MOV AL, 0x21 etc.). I found 8i in contrib/rsc which seems to have been taken from aki's 8i, but that just seems lik

Re: [9fans] TCP port hung up

2010-08-12 Thread Akshat Kumar
oops, I typed that in; s/term%/cpu%/g On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > term% grep -n /net/tcp/31 /proc/*/fd > term% > > quite sure they're all gone. > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:12 AM,   wrote: >> i'm not sure if you really killed a

Re: [9fans] TCP port hung up

2010-08-12 Thread Akshat Kumar
term% grep -n /net/tcp/31 /proc/*/fd term% quite sure they're all gone. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:12 AM, wrote: > i'm not sure if you really killed all instances of aquarela.  can you > grep -n /net/tcp/31 /proc/*/fd to see who is still using that filedescriptor. > > -- > cinap

[9fans] TCP port hung up

2010-08-11 Thread Akshat Kumar
I halted aquarela(1) with a ^D sequence, and made sure all processes were gone. ps(1) lists no processes on the server that could possibly be using port 445 (the port aquarela listens on for the CIFS service). And yet, netstat -n showed that TCP port 445 was still in LISTEN state. Naturally, I ran

Re: [9fans] IWP9 2010 - Update and reminder

2010-08-07 Thread Akshat Kumar
Is there a website about the event, yet? Any ideas where the venue will take place? On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: > Hello 9fans, > > IWP9 2010 is shaping up to be an exciting event.  We are happy to > announce the following talks: > > • Sape Mullender e

[9fans] Support for DWL-650+?

2010-08-06 Thread Akshat Kumar
I had an old DWL-650+ wireless PCMCIA card lying around. I'd love to use Plan 9 on my laptop if it could get to the net with this PCMCIA card. It seems there's driver support for the DWL-1000[1], but is there any driver support for the DWL-650+? Best, ak [1] http://9fans.net/archive/2001/06/219

Re: [9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
Ah, I got PXE to work - there is a special and hidden configuration menu for the boot agent. The easter egg was hidden at CTRL + ALT + B. On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > The real problem here being that my 3com ethernet > card grabs 9pxeload (or so it seems) via BOOTP

Re: [9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
The real problem here being that my 3com ethernet card grabs 9pxeload (or so it seems) via BOOTP and TFTP, but then can't run the damn thing. The ROM has Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v4.32. However, downloading and running 9load works just fine. On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Akshat Kumar

Re: [9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> Can I get it to download >> the INI file as well, some how? > > I don't beleive so. > > Normally the plan9.ini is be read from the same > device that 9load is loaded from. see /sys/src/boot/pc/load.c - the loader searches for plan9.ini in vari

[9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
I'm booting over ethernet, using the basic 9load (not 9pxeload). However, in /lib/ndb/local on my CPU server (where it downloads 9load), I can only specify bootf=/386/9load that is, I can't specify an INI file. I know the 9pxeload loader looks in /cfg/pxe/ to grab INI details; what can be done fo

[9fans] aux/cifs - ntlmv2

2010-07-31 Thread Akshat Kumar
aux/cifs contains an implementation of the client-side part of NTLMv2. What would be required to extend this to a full NTLMv2 specification in factotum, so that Aquarela could use mschap for older clients and ntlmv2 for newer clients (ntlmv2 is more secure than ntlm)? Thanks, ak

[9fans] aquarela less woeful

2010-07-30 Thread Akshat Kumar
For the less patient, I'll state the fix before the spiel et explanation: diff -n /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/aquarela/smbcomsessionsetupandx.c aquarela/smbcomsessionsetupandx.c /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/aquarela/smbcomsessionsetupandx.c:59 c aquarela/smbcomsessionsetupandx.c:59 < s->pee

Re: [9fans] compiling drawterm on windows

2010-07-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
ah, sorry for the noise (once again) the problem was just with my Makefile (I inserted a '#' in one line of the OFILES listing, so it threw off the rest of the entries). On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > I'm trying to compile drawterm on windows with >

[9fans] compiling drawterm on windows

2010-07-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
I'm trying to compile drawterm on windows with MinGW in MSYS; here is the problem: gcc -mwindows -o drawterm.exe main.o kern/libkern.a exportfs/libexportfs.a libauth/libauth.a libauthsrv/libauthsrv.a libsec/libsec.a libmp/libmp.a libmemdraw/libmemdraw.a libmemlayer/libmemlayer.a libdraw/libdraw.

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
just for future reference, this works fine in /rc/bin/9fs (I use a special 9fs just for cifs share, so that the rest of the system is not available): case example bind -c /usr /n/example sorry for the noise :) Best, ak On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > ahh, I

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
ahh, I see... I ran the srvfs command as bootes, then did chmod 666 /srv/example. so, even if I mount it in Plan 9, I see the same effects; I'm sorry, this isn't aquarela's fault. it's just my crappy namespace creation - what's the proper way to do this? again, my appologies...

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
Ah, nevermind that last one - the process is started as the last user I logged in as (I forgot I'd used that computer to login to the CIFS share already). But the main problem is still there: my share is called "example", which is basically just: srvfs example /usr where /usr contains: /usr/aku

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
> also, what is the supposed case when client does not specify a password? I ask this because from what I see, the client simply logs in as bootes... that shouldn't be the case, should it?

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> I have a rather serious problem with aquarela's >> setup: since it must run as bootes so that any use can login, >> it seems that *all* privileges (read/write, etc.) are those only of >> bootes! Is there any way so that each user that has logg

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
So, currently, I can only use aquarela with Windows XP it seems... can't establish connection, really, with Windows 7. But beyond that, I have a rather serious problem with aquarela's setup: since it must run as bootes so that any use can login, it seems that *all* privileges (read/write, etc.) ar

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
I should add that this relates to my previous post - with auth methods ntlm and ntlmv2, I get the "smbcomsessionsetupandx: case sensitive/insensitive password length not 24" error. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Steve Simon

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Steve Simon wrote: > I know there a bug in the default ntlmv2 auth when working with Vista > (and probably windows 7 too), but if you fall back to less secure > auth on the wire (e.g. by adding -a ntlm to the cifs command line) > then it works. actually, -a ntlm a

Re: [9fans] aquarela woes

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
what does this mean: smbcomsessionsetupandx: case sensitive/insensitive password length not 24 reply: error 2/2 surely not that every password must be 24 chars?

Re: [9fans] auth server with two NICs

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
nevermind, it's the network... or hardware... I tried just the very basic setup at the top of http://www.9grid.fr/www.9grid.fr/wiki/plan9/Drawterm_to_your_terminal/ and I get the same poor performance. network sux! On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > On Thu, Jul

Re: [9fans] auth server with two NICs

2010-07-22 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > a bad network? I thought so at first, but if instead of using separate /net and /net.alt mountpoints for the two networks, I simply, as I said before, bind -b '#l1' /net bind -b '#I1' /net and start auth service, etc., afterwards (so tha

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