Hi! I installed GNU Hurd Debian on a "real" i386 hardware, a ThinkPad with Pentium III. Things do work, which is nice! But I have an issue, no network hardware. The laptop has no integrated ethernet port - only slots where I have both a wired and an wifi card which have working drivers under linux and NetBSD. So "common stuff".
No help with Hurd - I installed the linux driver package. One question: is the issue because the cards are behind PCMCIA/CardBus and we don't support that? Essentially no "laptop" support then (albeit a little bit vintage, amd64 uses newer expansion slots, but we don't support 64 bit...) Riccardo