Re: realtek 8139

[M. Gerards]

Quoting Rian Hunter <rian@thelaststop.net>:

> My network card (realtek 8139 or dlink 530tx+) does not work.
> I don't have any developement tools (gcc gdb)
> I don't have the hurd sources :(

GNUMach has a rtl8139 driver, but there can be a few problems with your
situation:

- You use shared IRQs, GNUMach does not support shared IRQs.
- There is some weird conflict in GNUMach, recompile so it only includes
  the drivers you need.
- The NIC you have is not supported because the driver does not check for
  its PCIIDs.

In the last case I can try to help you.  Can you show me the PCIIDs of your
NIC?  (You can use lspci to get the information).
 
> I want to use the latest version of GNU Mach to see if there is a driver
> for my network card, but i can't use CVS (no network, i'll have to boot
> into gnu/linux). But even if i did have a network, i don't have gcc to
> compile cvs Mach! (i'm using GNU Mach 1.2)

You can find out how to checkout GNUMach n:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=hurd

Make sure you check out the "gnumach-1-branch" branch.

> so a couple of questions:
> 
> What is the correct gcc version to use with the Hurd, and what debian
> package would it be? (also where coudl i get it?)

AFAIK any should work but I am using gcc 3.2, IIRC.

But you do not need to compile GNUMach from GNU/Hurd, you can just compile
it from GNU/Linux.  (Remove the check for "gnu" in configure.in)

> Is there a driver for the nics with the 8139 chipset in the cvs GNU
> Mach?

It is supported, but this driver was not changed last years.

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Marco