I have just finished compiling netdde/libdde and can confirm that the patch is working on real hardware. I'm actually sending this email from my hurd box.
Thank you so much for the patch! /Peter > On 7/6/2012 12:10 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Hello, >> >> To people who were having problems of network card detection with >> netdde, I've found that it was hardcoded that only bus 0 and 2 were >> probed for. The attached patch should probe for all buses, and >> probably fix the issue you were having. Check your lspci output, if it >> looked like >> >> 03:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network >> Connection (rev 04) >> >> i.e. first number for the network board is neither 00 nor 02, then >> it's normal that netdde was not finding your card. You can apply the >> attached patch to the hurd package, install it, and rebuild netdde, or >> just wait for the next hurd+netdde upload, or CD image build. >> >> Samuel >> > > Samuel, > > This patch is working great on both of my machines now. > > As a side note, on one of the machines I am successfully using the 3c59x > driver. To build it I just > added a "int nr_irqs = 255;" line directly in 3c59x.c. I can try to look > into a more appropriate > solution if you would like. > > Thanks for all you do!! > > Barry deFreese > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
