Hi everyone. After fiddling with the Hurd a few years ago and giving up I made a new install recently. I decided to do so after upgrading my Debian bootloader from Lilo to Grub and figured I would give the GNU/Debian Hurd port and the Mach microkernel another chance. Seems to boot fine, glad to see work still moving forward.
However I am frusrated since I'm having a problem with getting my network card set up. Without the network I can't run apt-get & dselect. The loopback device works fine. When I run the commands described at http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html#SEC7 specifically 'settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 192.168.0.2 -g 192.168.0.1 -m 255.255.255.0' since I am behind a small NAT router and a cable modem all I get is the following output: /hurd/pfinet: eth0 (os/device) no such device settrans: /hurd/pfinet: translator died I'm also having a problem -getting- the text of the kernel "dmesg" so that I can find out more about what the Mach sees of my hardware. I'm assuming my next step is to compile a new kernel but I can't see if the devices I need are already in the stock kernel since I think they scroll by too fast. * Some of the boot messages scroll off the screen too fast for me to see. First I can see everything down to the checking of the IDE drives. Then there's a section I never see (too fast), then the parallel port probing, SCSI probing, 3c59x probing, then the comm ports initialize, then come the multiboot modules specified from the grub menu.lst file. Not specifying the modules in menu.lst (editing the menu.lst default during boot and deleting them) allows me to read a portion of the messages I couldn't see before at the expense of having the kernel panic and reboot after 30 seconds or so. At least I could read some more of the messages but not all of them. I still can't see the section between the IDE drives and the parallel port probing. * /boot/servers.boot gives files to run by /boot/serverboot.gz, but I can't find where to pass the -d argument to the serverboot program described in /info/hurd.info-1.gz, node: Invoking serverboot. This would give a pause (hopefully somewhere useful) until a key is pressed. I've tried passing it via the kernel line of my menu.lst file (both before and after the root= argument) but it won't work. * Putting /bin/sleep commands in both /libexec/rc and /libexec/runsystem are too late in the boot process to help much but they do help a little. * there's no facility like the linux dmesg writing to /var/log/dmesg that I can find. * The Pause/Break key doesn't seem to stop anything * The BIOS detects the card at IRQ 10, isapnp under Linux shows this: # Card 1: (serial identifier 2a 02 8c d9 c8 01 22 8b 11) # Vendor Id DLK2201, Serial Number 42785224, checksum 0x2A. # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0 # ANSI string -->D-Link DE-220P PnP ISA Card<-- Any help you can provide would be most appreciated. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
