On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:39:12PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I have a working HURD installation, the boot sequence lists a card (the > correct one) during the startup. but I have a lot of error messages and > the system can not locate the card when I try to ping the localhost or > my gateway. I have my own domain and my ISP has assigned my static IP > addresses. I ahve tried to use info, man, etc. but nothing realy details > setting up networking. Wierdly the boot meassage does point out the > author of the drivers for the realtek 8139 chipset based card that I am > using. I had to recompile my kernel in Linux to get that card to work. > Must I do the same for HURD? I also use a dual processor system, must I > recompile for them both to work--seems much slower than Linux SMP.
no SMP on Hurd yet (ever ?) probably you should settrans pfinet at /servers/socket/2 to use your net card. dont remember exact syntax, check with --usage or --help, Im sure it was described there