Re: Compatible PCI network card

> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 17:50:35 +0200
> From: Richard Braun <[email protected]>
> 
> This board may also be supported by GNU Mach, so if it turns out to be
> too painful to get netdde working, you might simply try to rebuild your
> kernel with the appropriate driver. Netdde simply bails out if the
> device was already found by the kernel so don't be afraid to just
> switch kernels.

Success! I compiled my own kernel with rtl8139 support and it now
works.

For anyone else who has the same problem here are the steps I took:

I have Squeeze on a different hard drive on the same computer so I was
able to use that for compilation. I followed all the prep stuff as
mentioned in [1].

I got the GNU Mach sources from Sid and applied the Debian patches.
In debian/rules I added to the line "drivers := " the entry
"--enable-rtl8139". Then I compiled as per [1].

I then transferred the .deb packages to my Hurd partition, booted into
Hurd, and unstalled. Dpkg complained that the packages were compiled
for i386 rather than hurd-i386 but I did --force-architecture and it
all seems to work fine.

Thanks Richard for all your help, and thanks to Debian for such a
pain-free building process.

Dominic


1. https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/gnumach/building.html