Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 10/06/2020 20:02, Joshua Branson wrote: Well it is a good report of current "hardware" status! You tried your best! unfortunately, yes... but no luck. I used to have a 100% bare metal HURD machine... it was old, but worked well. But it was a Desktop. I never got it on a Laptop unf

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Joshua Branson
Well it is a good report of current "hardware" status! You tried your best! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Richard Braun wrote: > This is an old race that definitely needs fixing. now being stubborn, I tried to hold another i386 laptop with PATA drive. The "old" and "donor" laptop I tried have the a similar architecture  both being ThinkPads with Pentium III I have also a Compaq Pentium IV. If I

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Richard Braun wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:34:55AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> Put HD back in old laptop. >> Boot halts at: >> Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[defice:hd0s1] exec >> >> Tried rebooting, it is stuck twice, > This is an old race that definitely needs fixing. is this ra

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Richard Braun
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:34:55AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Put HD back in old laptop. > Boot halts at: > Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[defice:hd0s1] exec > > Tried rebooting, it is stuck twice, This is an old race that definitely needs fixing. -- Richard Braun

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Michael Banck wrote: >> We have some support for this in the cardmgr-gnumach package. I don't >> know how that works, though. > I'm not sure anybody looked at that in the last 15 years; IIRC it was > put together with a hot needle back then and I'd be very surprised if it > still worked at lea

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:34:48PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Riccardo Mottola, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 23:32:05 +0100, a ecrit: > > One question: is the issue because the cards are behind PCMCIA/CardBus > > and we don't support that? > > We have some support for this in the cardmgr-gnumac

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-02-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 23:32:05 +0100, a ecrit: > One question: is the issue because the cards are behind PCMCIA/CardBus > and we don't support that? We have some support for this in the cardmgr-gnumach package. I don't know how that works, though. > Essentially no "laptop" suppo

real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-02-20 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! I installed GNU Hurd Debian on a "real" i386 hardware, a ThinkPad with Pentium III. Things do work, which is nice! But I have an issue, no network hardware. The laptop has no integrated ethernet port - only slots where I have both a wired and an wifi card which have working drivers under linux