Re: Compatible PCI network card

[Dominic Walden]

> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 09:59:05 +0200
> From: Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>
>
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 11:07:29AM +0100, Dominic Walden wrote:
> > Hurd has been working nicely with my old P4 for a few months now. The
> > only issue I have is that I cannot get the ethernet card to work. I
> > thought, instead of buying a new motherboard, I could purchase a PCI
> > ethernet card and use that.
> 
> Can you give a detailed description of the NIC that's not working ?
> Include things like the output of lspci -v please.

Output when running Debian 6:

02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. 865PE Neo2-V Mainboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 23
        I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
        Memory at feafff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: 8139too

The GNU/Hurd I am using is Debian, not the latest but the one before
that (the one from late April IIRC).

I contacted the Debian mailing lists about it. I wasn't expecting
anyone here to try to solve my problem :)

> 
> > Does anyone know of a PCI ethernet card which will work with GNU/Hurd?
> 
> Debian GNU/Hurd uses netdde, which includes almost all ethernet drivers
> from Linux 2.6.29. It doesn't support firmware loading though. Common
> Intel PRO 100/1000 as well as Realtek cards should just work.

Thanks, I'll see what I can find.

Dominic