Re: netdde builds

On 28/06/2026 21:10, Jason Montleon wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> Thanks for the reply. The system is a virtual machine. I switched the NIC from e1000e to an e1000 and it boots OK now, so seems to be an interaction with the e1000e.
>
> The entire boot is here:
> https://gist.github.com/jasonmontleon/62ca5b508e331182675e3440895bb626
>
> Thank you,
> Jason Montleon

Using e1000e with netdde (0.0.20200330-13) does indeed fail on hurd-i386 
and hurd-amd64. The latter hangs after issuing the DHCPREQUEST whilst 
the former like Jason reported.  e1000e worked in the previous netdde. I 
hadn't been aware of this Qemu NIC option but I see that Linux 'Virtual 
Machine Manager 5.0.0' now lists e1000e rather than e1000 which I think 
might be a recent change on my host.

The workaround is to substitute e1000e for e1000 but fixing this 
properly is now number 1 on my list.

Should version 12 be restored as the latest 'sid' for the time being ?

Cheers,

Mike.