More network oddness

[Peter McAlpine]

Hello,

This is the third time I've tried using the hurd, and I've had the
same trouble each time. What happens to me is the same thing (as far
as I can tell) that happened to "Matt" (jediknight@xwing.org) (in the
help-hurd archives, Aug 6, 2001, Title "Network Oddness").

I've made it through the initial installation
(i.e. ./native-install*2). Now I'm trying to set up pfinet (using
hurd-install-guide.html as my reference). I get the same problemss
jediknight got... ping sometimes hangs, sometimes gives results.

What I figured out is that it's the DNS that was really slow. Once I
had the ip of my target, no problem. So I changed sources.list so that
it had the ips of alpha.gnu.org and whatever.debian.org instead of the
domain names. I was even able to "apt-get nvi" to make my life easier.

So anyway, I was getting really brave, and was going to try apt-get
emacs... when my network quit. I tried re-initing pfinet with another
"settrans -fgap ..." but to no success. settrans started to hang more
and more seriously the more times I tried (I was trying different
config values). Eventually, settrans just hung the hurd. oi. I can
reboot, and have my connection work for a few minutes, and then it
just hangs again.

So anyway, I'm determined to get the hurd going, but I'd greatly
appreciate any help you can offer. I run the VIA-rhine driver in
linux, and am pretty sure that the hurd picked that up at boot time
and is using the same thing.

-pete =)

specs:
i386
DLINK 530TX pci (VIA-rhine)
/proc/pci entry for Ethernet card:
 Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine \
10/100] (rev 6).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=200.  Min Gnt=118.Max Lat=152.
      I/O at 0x1400 [0x147f].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4010000 [0xf401007f].

-- 
Peter McAlpine
pmcalpin@uoguelph.ca