Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, I'm now exploring the eth-multiplexer project written by Zheng. AFAICT, the aim of this project is to provide a much more flexible network strategy by allowing new virtual devices and filters and by dispatching the packets received via a (single) physical device to corresponding clients con

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Da Zheng
Hi, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: Hello, I'm now exploring the eth-multiplexer project written by Zheng. AFAICT, the aim of this project is to provide a much more flexible network strategy by allowing new virtual devices and filters and by dispatching the packets received via a (single) physical device

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:12:40PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > However, when I do apt-get update, it (very slowly) fetches me > ~800B, then hangs for around 6-7 minutes and then stops with warnings > and errors about failures in fetching data. > > Taking into consideration that neither a

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 03:07:53PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:12:40PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > I put much hope into my old box, but I forgot that it had some weird > > software RAID stuff embedded into the motherboard, which I cannot turn > > off. When

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 05:47:41PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 03:07:53PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:12:40PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > I put much hope into my old box, but I forgot that it had some weird > > > software RAID

Setting up eth-multiplexer in QEMU (was: Where to run the Hurd)

2009-06-27 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:45:43PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > I failed to install Hurd in Q - the qemu for Mac OS X, so I cannot test > eth-multiplexer in qemu. > Could you just run the modified pfinet directly on gnumach? So we can > test which component has the problem. Of course, you h

[patch #6856] Declare trivfs hooks external and provide defaults

2009-06-27 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
URL: Summary: Declare trivfs hooks external and provide defaults Project: The GNU Hurd Submitted by: hammy Submitted on: Sat 27 Jun 2009 08:47:14 PM CEST Category: libtrivfs

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 03:07:53PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:12:40PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > I put much hope into my old box, but I forgot that it had some weird > > software RAID stuff embedded into the motherboard, which I cannot turn > > off. When

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sergiu Ivanov, le Sat 27 Jun 2009 22:24:58 +0300, a écrit : > Probing PCI hardware. > > Here it stops. Is this good or bad? :-) I've never seen that. You could track down by putting printfs. (That's what I did for fixing a couple of bugs). Samuel

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 09:32:53PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Sergiu Ivanov, le Sat 27 Jun 2009 22:24:58 +0300, a écrit : > > Probing PCI hardware. > > > > Here it stops. Is this good or bad? :-) > > I've never seen that. You could track down by putting printfs. (That's > what I did

Re: Where to run the Hurd

2009-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sergiu Ivanov, le Sat 27 Jun 2009 23:00:43 +0300, a écrit : > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 09:32:53PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Sergiu Ivanov, le Sat 27 Jun 2009 22:24:58 +0300, a écrit : > > > Probing PCI hardware. > > > > > > Here it stops. Is this good or bad? :-) > > > > I've never seen th