Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd

2002-05-22 Thread Tobin Fricke
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > The [Hurd] operates with almost everything in user-space. This makes the > more secure. Running a lot of things in user-space is actually what > every modern operating system does (and unix is not modern, it's 30 Yes, but that's almost completely unr

Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd (firewalling tools)

2002-05-22 Thread Tobin Fricke
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > Exactly. The problem is that if Hurd releases without firewalling tools > we haven't allowed our users to make this choice. Right... but the one problem with this argument is that it could be applied to any feature. You could say that, unless we rele

Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd (firewalling tools)

2002-05-22 Thread Tobin Fricke
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > Quite frankly, I've no idea why you're quite so dogmatically against > having firewalling tools. What are we accomplishing with this "firewalling" argument? I think it's pretty clear that we'd like the HURD to support these things (routing, packet fi

Re: GNUmach kernel parameters?

2002-04-17 Thread Tobin Fricke
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Jeff Bailey wrote: > 1) I don't see a question here. (Or at least, there's nothing that > ends with a question mark.) It helps to read the original message: | My setup is two ISA cards, one 3c509 and one NE2000. In Linux the | 3c509 automatically (without any specific ker

Re: 3c556 ethernet

2002-02-22 Thread Tobin Fricke
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > Is your card unsupported in gnumach or is there just a bug in gnumach? It's unsupported. > Does gnumach prints anything about your card? Well, I see the line printed by Donald Becker's driver but it doesn't see the card. > And what versions of lin

Debian packages, and 3c556 ethernet

2002-02-20 Thread Tobin Fricke
Hello, I've just installed Debian GNU/Hurd via the "giant tarball" scheme (originating from a SuSE linux installation) and it *works*! How exciting. (-: I have two questions. First, my network card is a 3com 3c556 "laptop tornado" (mini-pci), which doesn't seem to be supported. But I see that