Re: the Hurd and NForce2's ethernet don't play nice

[Joachim Nilsson]

Robert Seger said:
>       NVidia hosts linux drivers on their site for the NForce board's
> ethernet capabilities. Sadly, these do not make properly on the version  of
> the Hurd I have (it's the latest Debian GNU/Hurd release).
> Truthfully, I've never seen so many warnings before make cuts out.  Having
> looked through the code for the error it reports last, my guess  is that
> it's unable to include any of the .h files that are needed. They  are
> supposed to be in "linux/blah.h" and, obviously, there's no such  directory.
> Nor could I find the needed headers elsewhere on the system  (module.h,
> kernel.h, config.h were the three I was browsing for - there  are a number
> of others).
>       So, what I need to know is if I've totally screwed up and should have
> tried something entirely different in the beginning or if I'm on the  right
> track and I've just got the fight of my life ahead of me getting  these
> things to compile. If getting these to compile is what I need to  be doing,
> I could really use some pointers on where to get information  about porting
> these kinds of things to the Hurd.

What you need is to port the driver to the OSKit framework. The next
GNUmach kernel (v2) will be based on the OSKit, Roland calls/called it
oskit-mach. Anyway, you can find our tree, with the latest patches and
upgrades to the tree at:

   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oskit/

That however, is only the OSKit, then you need to checkout the latest
GNUmach tree as well, instructions for that is at:

   http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hurd/

Some build tips and tricks are available on the Hurd Wiki.

   http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Mach/BuildingOskitMach


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Personally I would've been very eager to help you out more, but for
the moment I'm swamped with other things. But don't think you're alone
in this, there's a lot of helpful people around here and on IRC willing
to give you a hand. I hope this info will be useful, good luck!


Regards
 /Joachim

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