Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

[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 least somewhat today.

I come back to this.

I tried:
remove hard disk, but it in another laptop (since no USB... I had really
no other way to transfer the file...)
Update everything with apt-get upgrade.

Download cardmgr-gnuach, install.
Reboot and reboot works. I did not test id cardbus works, sicne this
laptop has integrated ethernet, even though apparently (did not test
thoroughly at that momemt though) a WiFi cardbus card caused boot issue.

Put HD back in old laptop.
Boot halts at:
Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[defice:hd0s1] exec

Tried rebooting, it is stuck twice,

Put it back in the other laptop, reboot & fsck. Uninstall cardmgr-gnumach

Put HD back in old laptop. Stuck again.

So I am not 99% sure that cardmgr-gnumach does not work, but I am quite
sure that after the update, GNUmach hancs on my Old Thinkpad 600 with a
PentiumIII processor.

Cheers,
Riccardo