Re: The Hurd (gnumach) is crashing on network cards

2001-11-29 Thread James Morrison
--- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [GNU Mach hangs during boot while trying to detect a NE NIC] > > IIRC you are not the first one having this problem. Try to compile > GNU Mach yourself, with only the NIC driver you need enabled a

Re: Compiling leafnode: MAXPATHLEN issue

2001-11-29 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:59:42 +0100 Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried to build leafnode from the current debian source package. > Unfortunately compiling fails due to a MAXPATHLEN issue in activutil.c > > Im not a coder, so I can't fix it. If anyone else would like to, I'd be

Re: Emacs not working under X

2001-11-29 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 29 Nov 2001 18:08:03 +0100 Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > today I've installed emacs 20.3-5 on my Hurd partition. It works just > fine on the console. But when I say emacs & or even emacs -q & in an > xterm, a new blank window shows up and nothing (visible) further >

Emacs not working under X

2001-11-29 Thread Johannes Rohr
Dear all, today I've installed emacs 20.3-5 on my Hurd partition. It works just fine on the console. But when I say emacs & or even emacs -q & in an xterm, a new blank window shows up and nothing (visible) further happens until it disappears again, leaving a message "Connection to X server .0:0" l

Compiling leafnode: MAXPATHLEN issue

2001-11-29 Thread Johannes Rohr
I just tried to build leafnode from the current debian source package. Unfortunately compiling fails due to a MAXPATHLEN issue in activutil.c Im not a coder, so I can't fix it. If anyone else would like to, I'd be pleased... Hopefully it's not too difficult. Leafnode is a small but incredibly use

HURD for Dummies

2001-11-29 Thread ted
Someone kindly posted some pointers for those wanting to install HURD. I've unfortunately lost the references. Would someone please repost? Ted - MVS heavy, HURD lightweigh.

Re: The Hurd (gnumach) is crashing on network cards

2001-11-29 Thread Moritz Schulte
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [GNU Mach hangs during boot while trying to detect a NE NIC] IIRC you are not the first one having this problem. Try to compile GNU Mach yourself, with only the NIC driver you need enabled and see wether that works. moritz -- [E

Problems with NetGear LNE100TX

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Novodvorsky
Hello! I have problems running the hurd with NetGear LNE100TX. by idea, it is supported by tulip module on linux, and it works well there. But when I run hurd, it switches between 10baseT and 100baseTx regulary (around one switch per 2 seconds) and network doesn't work. I recompiled GNU Mach to s

The Hurd (gnumach) is crashing on network cards

2001-11-29 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hello all, I've been trying to boot the hurd on my 486... I got the beast to boot but it was hanging just after scsi detection, while booting the Hurd on my k6 I noticed that after that step was the network card detection so I removed my network card from the computer and it works! I have an

Re: H2 - Hurd "task" scripts

2001-11-29 Thread Philip Charles
On 29 Nov 2001, Martin Kretzschmar wrote: > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Diego Roversi wrote: > > > > > > > > Why bash is not in the initial.sh ? > > > > It is in the tarball, now how did it get here ... > > > > Hint: > > dpkg -p bash > Package: b

For Neal

2001-11-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
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Re: H2 - Hurd "task" scripts

2001-11-29 Thread Martin Kretzschmar
Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Diego Roversi wrote: > > > > > Why bash is not in the initial.sh ? > > It is in the tarball, now how did it get here ... > Hint: dpkg -p bash Package: bash Essential: yes Priority: required [...] Martin

Re: H2 - Hurd "task" scripts

2001-11-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Diego Roversi wrote: > I wish to see jed/jed-common added here or in developer.sh. But note: only > version >=0.99.15 works correctly on hurd. BTW: jed is a really good editor > if you like "user-friendly" editor, but I don't want to start a Holy War > now :) OK, in initi

Re: Mouse Problem (was Re: ./MAKEDEV kbd failing)

2001-11-29 Thread Johannes Rohr
On Mit, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:12:15 -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > # settrans /dev/mouse /hurd/mouse --device=com0 --protocol=microsoft > > to set my mouse. I've already created /dev/com0 and stuff, but there's > no /dev/mouse and the translator complains about this, I thought it > could be