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| author | antrik <antrik@users.sf.net> | 2011-06-10 22:43:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Olaf Buddenhagen <antrik@users.sf.net> | 2011-07-09 12:50:08 +0200 |
| commit | 321b29458db1fd7fd7e63e652d3c93622750155b (patch) | |
| tree | 5e9101d7bd5c929596ac4cf84a95dd710fbe01e6 /hurd | |
| parent | f9b9e989780a7d59c3e052e8f5f2a62e1d106768 (diff) | |
dde/guide: add intro
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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/dde/guide.mdwn | 14 |
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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) |