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| -rw-r--r-- | contributing/web_pages.mdwn | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn | 6 |
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages.mdwn index e156f6a3..1689afc3 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages.mdwn @@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ editing. $ apt install ikiwiki libyaml-syck-perl markdown libsearch-xapian-perl texinfo +### Guix + + If you have guix installed, then you can render the wiki via: + + $ cd hurd-web/ + $ guix shell + $ ./render_locally + ## Identifying Yourself First, let's make sure that you're properly identifying yourself towards Git. diff --git a/hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn b/hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn index 1bf4fa5e..fc2734ab 100644 --- a/hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn +++ b/hurd/rump/rumpnet.mdwn @@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ device drivers. Hurd developers are replacing Linux's old ethernet drivers with rumpnet's modern ethernet and wifi device drivers. While porting Linux's device drivers would provide better hardware support, we do not have the developer man-power to maintain it. Hurd -Developers prefer rumpnet's stable API over Linux's code churn. We -plan to replace `pfinet` with [[lwip|hurd/translator/lwip]] (or use -rump's TCP/IP stack). +Developers prefer rumpnet's stable API over Linux's code churn. In 2025, Damien Zammit make significant progress with rumpnet. He coded rumpnet to work with `/dev/wmX` cards, which are Intel i8254x @@ -41,7 +39,7 @@ In your `/etc/network/interfaces` replace `/dev/eth0` with `/dev/wm0` auto /dev/wm0 # this will autostart rumpnet at boot iface /dev/wm0 inet dhcp -Now you should be able to manually start rumpnet! +Now you should be able to manually start rumpnet, and it should autostart at boot! # ifup /dev/wm0 diff --git a/hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn b/hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn index 8463e670..2a5f0337 100644 --- a/hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn +++ b/hurd/rump/rumpusbdisk.mdwn @@ -13,11 +13,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] # RumpUSBDisk -With RumpUSBDisk, the Hurd can use a usb to SATA dongle to access a -SATA device. StarTech offers a good quality dongle that works -well. The Hurd could then read/write data from a SATA device with an -fatfs or ext2 filesystem. Damien Zammit implemented [[rumpusbdisk -already|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2023-07/msg00025.html]]. +With RumpUSBDisk, the Hurd can drive usb sticks and dongles. However, as of October 2024, netdde seems to exhibit a bug when running `ifdown /dev/eth0` simultaneously to running the rumpusbdisk translator, due to the two devices sharing the same IRQ. |