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@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ Get DDE code:
$ mkdir dde && cd dde
Note: here, use dde-debian instead of dde if you have gnumach >=
-2:1.3.99.dfsg.git20120219-1 already installed and running.
+2:1.3.99.dfsg.git20120219-1 already installed and running. Otherwise you will
+get "vm_allocate_contiguous: (ipc/mig) bad request message ID" error messages.
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/incubator.git -b dde hurd
@@ -205,6 +206,11 @@ Once there, set up the translators for the driver (as root):
$ settrans -cap /dev/forcedeth /hurd/dde/dde_forcedeth
+If that spews error "vm_allocate_contiguous: (ipc/mig) bad request message ID",
+you are mixing things: either use the debian kernel and the dde-debian incubator
+branch, or use your kernel built from the master-user_level_drivers branch and
+the dde incubator branch, but don't make any mixture.
+
$ settrans -cap /dev/eth0 /hurd/dde/devnode -M /dev/forcedeth eth0
Finally, we can set up the actual network translator,