Praveen Arimbrathodiyil blogs here

Michael Bank writes:

Hello people,

The recent GNU Mach upload has brought PCMCIA support to Debian GNU/Hurd,
thanks to the excellent work done by Stefan Siegl since the beginning of
the year.

The Debian gnumach package is configured to include drivers for the
PCMCIA bridges and several popular PCMCIA cards. The user space part of
this is provided by a GNU/Hurd port of the Linux cardgmr from the
pcmcia-cs package. I have uploaded a cardmgr-gnumach package containing
this to the gnuab APT repository.

The package is configured to start cardmgr at bootup and should detect
your PCMCIA cards.

But this is not all.

Stefan also ported Linux’s wireless-tools to GNU/Hurd, and it is now
possible to use WLAN with WEP encryption provided your WLAN pc-card is
supported by GNU Mach. I have uploaded this work as the
wireless-tools-gnumach package to gnuab as well.

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Read the announcement here

It is really exciting as GNU System is becoming better and better by each day. I hope we will be ready for a realse by etch+1.

Happy Hacking.