From 321b29458db1fd7fd7e63e652d3c93622750155b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: antrik Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:43:24 +0200 Subject: dde/guide: add intro --- hurd/dde/guide.mdwn | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'hurd') diff --git a/hurd/dde/guide.mdwn b/hurd/dde/guide.mdwn index 56f7683c..ffff601d 100644 --- a/hurd/dde/guide.mdwn +++ b/hurd/dde/guide.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +This guide explains how to build and set up +a DDE-based network card driver +with Debian GNU/Hurd, +if your (wired) network card +is not supported by the old in-kernel drivers shipped with gnumach. + +This guide assumes that you have +an installation of Debian GNU/Linux on the same machine, +which helps in fetching the required packages +in absence of working networking in the Hurd. +The whole process is much more cumbersome otherwise. + If you haven't: install hurd to partition get grub image boot hurd in single user (change grub entry accordingly to the installed partition) -- cgit v1.2.3