Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 10/06/2020 20:02, Joshua Branson wrote: Well it is a good report of current "hardware" status! You tried your best! unfortunately, yes... but no luck. I used to have a 100% bare metal HURD machine... it was old, but worked well. But it was a Desktop. I never got it on a Laptop

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Joshua Branson
Well it is a good report of current "hardware" status! You tried your best! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!

2020-06-10 Thread Joshua Branson
Thanks for the calming words gentlemen! I am realizing that I am probably a little more right brained (I like writing and speaking a lot) and I am not as talented in my left brain (doing math and programming and such). It is possible that the path forward for me that will provide the most

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Richard Braun wrote: > This is an old race that definitely needs fixing. now being stubborn, I tried to hold another i386 laptop with PATA drive. The "old" and "donor" laptop I tried have the a similar architecture  both being ThinkPads with Pentium III I have also a Compaq Pentium IV. If

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Richard Braun wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:34:55AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> Put HD back in old laptop. >> Boot halts at: >> Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[defice:hd0s1] exec >> >> Tried rebooting, it is stuck twice, > This is an old race that definitely needs fixing. is this

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread Richard Braun
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:34:55AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Put HD back in old laptop. > Boot halts at: > Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[defice:hd0s1] exec > > Tried rebooting, it is stuck twice, This is an old race that definitely needs fixing. -- Richard Braun

Re: real hardware and ethernet cards

2020-06-10 Thread 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

Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!

2020-06-10 Thread Damien Zammit
Hi Joshua, On 10/6/20 9:49 am, Joshua Branson wrote: > And I know Damien Zammit is fantastic, because he is working on some > ridiculously amazing audio work for the Hurd. And holy Alaskan > Asparagus tips! How does he have time to be a kernel developer and make > such beautiful music! Can you