2009/4/14 Jim Habegger <jimhabeg...@gmail.com>: > My wireless card is not listed in Plan9.ini. Does that mean there's no > way for me to connect with that card? > > I'd like to learn how much I can use Plan 9 for home office, > multimedia and Internet socializing, then I'd like to experiment with > distributing the system between computers. I've learned about as much > as I can for now from the documentation on the Plan 9 site, except for > how to connect to the network. I'm waiting to find out if it's even > possible.> We have three Windows laptops in our family. I've been using free > software systems off and on for years. Last week I learned about Plan > 9 from Bell Labs, from someone in a Linux Questions forum. Now I have > it installed on a partition on my laptop, along with XP, > Ubuntu-on-NTFS, Debian, and Slackware. I've learned to access a fat > partition, change the font size, and use Acme. Now I need to learn how > to set up a wireless connection to the family router network, access > my files on my wife's Vista laptop, and browse the Internet. >
Plan 9 wireless support is not great. There may or may not be support for your wireless card. For information on configuring your Plan 9 system to get on the network, see: http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/network_configuration/index.html A list of known supported hardware is available at: http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html > Now I'm listing /bin, reading man pages, and practicing commands. > After that I might have some questions. Meanwhile, does anyone have > any suggestions about learning to use Plan 9 for home office, > multimedia and Internet socializing, and then to learn more about > networking and distributed systems? There's not much to do with Plan 9 in the way of multimedia and home office. The papers in /sys/doc are useful for learning about the system. Additionally, the wiki is a good resource and development for the system is detailed in http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf. --dho
