HURD and a Laptop

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

since I have so many troubles getting Hurd running on my ol' and 
faithful computer again, with my GRUB problems being the nastiest one, I 
thought of an alternative strategy. It is most probably realy a GRUB 
problem, but at the end it affects my ability to run HURD again.

Being no fun of virtual machines, I ask if there is any chance for HURD 
to run on a lapop and recognize a PCMCIA card.
I don't ask support for WiFi (but would be nice) just for wired 
ethernet. I don't ask for hot-plug, just for it being usable if inserted 
at boot time.

Since there is no "dmesg" and "ifconfig" doesn't list the interfaces I 
have no clue if my device is there.

I already installed HURD, booted and tried to ifconfig /dev/eth0 but 
that doesn't work with the server dying. I suppose the device is not there.

Thank you.

Riccardo