diff --git a/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/content.mk b/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/content.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bd2c99afd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/content.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SRC_DIR = src/drivers/nic/spec/linux
+include $(GENODE_DIR)/repos/base/recipes/src/content.inc
diff --git a/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/hash b/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/hash
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da7dfa016
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/hash
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2019-04-23 d3b45720a1a98b45ff0e7f3fecfc138f273ddc22
diff --git a/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/used_apis b/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/used_apis
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8896ba8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/os/recipes/src/linux_nic_drv/used_apis
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+base
+base-linux
+os
+nic_session