• Hurd on real hardware: My network stopped working.

    From Zenon Burak@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 13 17:10:01 2020
    I had a WORKING Debian/Hurd system on my old but real hardware: Intel
    Celeron 415MHz, 0.5GB RAM, NE2000 network card (IRQ9, 0x300). Network
    was working ok (I could upgrade my system by apt-get), but It stopped
    working after one of upgrade, about 2 month ego.

    How can I detect and solve my problem?

    I see those messages during statup: ................................................................
    Configuring network interface...inetutils-ifconfig: socket error:
    Translator died
    ifup: failed to bringup lo ................................................................

    My /etc/network/interface:
    ------------------------------------------
    # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
    # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

    source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

    # The loopback network interface
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    # The primary network interface
    iface /dev/eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.2
    gateway 192.168.1.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    ------------------------------------------

    I have executed some commands:
    .....................................
    $ devprobe eth
    eth0
    $ ifup /dev/eth0
    inetutils-ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR faled: No such device
    ifup: failed to bring up /dev/eth0
    .....................................

    My /var/log/dmesg: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    GNU Mach 1.8+git20200309
    biosmem: physical memory map:
    biosmem: 000000000000000000:00000000000009fc00, available
    biosmem: 00000000000009fc00:0000000000000a0000, reserved
    biosmem: 0000000000000f0000:000000000000100000, reserved
    biosmem: 000000000000100000:000000000020000000, available
    biosmem: 0000000000ffff0000:000000000100000000, reserved
    vm_page: page table size: 131056 entries (7168k)
    vm_page: DMA: pages: 4080 (15M), free: 0 (0M)
    vm_page: DMA: min:500 low:600 high:1000
    vm_page: DIRECTMAP: pages: 126976 (496M), free: 123470 (482M)
    vm_page: DIRECTMAP: min:6348 low:7618 high:12697
    GNU Mach 1.8+git20200309
    biosmem: physical memory map:
    biosmem: 000000000000000000:00000000000009fc00, available
    biosmem: 00000000000009fc00:0000000000000a0000, reserved
    biosmem: 0000000000000f0000:000000000000100000, reserved
    biosmem: 000000000000100000:000000000020000000, available
    biosmem: 0000000000ffff0000:000000000100000000, reserved
    vm_page: page table size: 131056 entries (7168k)
    vm_page: DMA: pages: 4080 (15M), free: 0 (0M)
    vm_page: DMA: min:500 low:600 high:1000
    vm_page: DIRECTMAP: pages: 126976 (496M), free: 123470 (482M)
    vm_page: DIRECTMAP: min:6348 low:7618 high:12697
    pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0xfaec0
    pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb340
    pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb370
    Probing PCI hardware.
    ide: Intel 82371 PIIX4 (dual FIFO) DMA Bus Mastering IDE
    Controller on PCI bus 0 function 57
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
    hd0: got CHS=9729/255/63 CTL=8 from BIOS
    intnull(14)
    hd0: ST380021A, 76319MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA
    hd1: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-308B, ATAPI CDROM drive
    intnull(15)
    hd2: ST340823A, 38166MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA
    ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
    ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
    Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
    FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
    ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
    NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 0 80 48 83 cd ab
    eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9.
    Partition check (DOS partitions):
    hd0: hd0s1 hd0s2 hd0s3 hd0s4 < hd0s5 hd0s6 hd0s7 hd0s8 hd0s9 >
    hd2: hd2s1 hd2s2 hd2s3 hd2s4
    com0: at atbus0, port = 3f8, spl = 6, pic = 4. (DOS COM1)
    com1: at atbus1, port = 2f8, spl = 6, pic = 3. (DOS COM2)
    lpr0: at atbus2, port = 378, spl = 6, pic = 7.
    module 0: ext2fs --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create)
    $(task-resume)



    --
    Pozdrawiam,
    Marcin

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  • From Zenon Burak@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 22 12:40:01 2020
    I had compiled gnmach from sources, and I have working net one time
    but I cannot to launch it now.

    Could you explain how to setup and diagnose network corectly?
    I do it as I described it in my last mail.

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  • From Joshua Branson@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 22 18:30:01 2020
    Heyo Zenon!

    I think you could try to follow the guide on the wiki here:

    https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install

    There's a section about configuring networking that has a command like

    settrans -fga /dev/netdde /hurd/netdde

    That helps you try to get debugging information.

    I'd try to follow that guide and report back here. Best of luck!

    Also way to go trying to run the Hurd on real hardware! How stable does
    X seem? Does it seems fairly cool to use?

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