Hello, I've just installed Debian GNU/Hurd via the "giant tarball" scheme (originating from a SuSE linux installation) and it *works*! How exciting. (-:
I have two questions. First, my network card is a 3com 3c556 "laptop tornado" (mini-pci), which doesn't seem to be supported. But I see that GNUMach includes 3c59x.c by Donald Becker. The version of 3c59x.c that comes with recent Linux kernels supports my network card, so I'm wondering how hard it would be to bring this support over to GNU Mach so that I can have network access in Hurd? The second question is a consequence of the first: What's the easiest way to get a development environment set up in Hurd? I'm not too familiar with the Debian package system... but can I, from within linux, fetch and cross-install (via dselect?) the packages needed for development (gcc, gmake, binutils, etc)? thanks, Tobin
