diff --git a/configs/olimex-lpc1766stk/README.txt b/configs/olimex-lpc1766stk/README.txt
index 85d1f1018e8..685401cbe9b 100755
--- a/configs/olimex-lpc1766stk/README.txt
+++ b/configs/olimex-lpc1766stk/README.txt
@@ -806,6 +806,32 @@ Where <subdir> is one of the following:
     Ethernet data link layer.  The Ethernet driver is disabled; SLIP IP
     packets are exchanged on UART1; UART0 is still the serial console.
 
+    1. Configure and build the slip-httpd configuration.
+    2. Connect to a Linux box (assuming /dev/ttyS0)
+    3. Reset on the target side / attach SLIP on the Linux side:
+    
+       $ slattach -p slip -s 57600 /dev/ttyS0 &
+ 
+       This should create an interface with a name like sl0. Add -d to
+       get debug output.  In the naming, slN, the N corresponds to the
+       tty device number as in /dev/ttySN.
+
+    4. After turning over the line to the SLIP driver, you must configure
+       the network interface. Again, you do this using the standard
+       ifconfig and route commands. Assume that we have connected to a
+       host PC with address 192.168.0.101 from your target with address
+       10.0.0.2. On the Linux PC you would execute the following as root:
+
+       $ ifconfig sl0 192.168.0.101 pointopoint 10.0.0.2 up -OR?-
+       $ ifconfig sl0 10.0.0.2 pointopoint 192.168.0.101 up
+       $ route add 10.0.0.2 dev sl0
+
+       Assuming the SLIP is attached to device sl0.
+
+    [ NOTE: As of this writing, I actually have not yet successfully         ]
+    [ configured SLIP on Linux.  The above are really just my working notes. ]
+    [ I suspect that I may have the IP address backward for one thing.       ]
+       
   thttpd:
     This builds the THTTPD web server example using the THTTPD and
     the examples/thttpd application.