Subject: Re: Problem setting up an AppleTalk network
From: sat (satadru@umich.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 11:37:33 EST
You need to compile a Linux kernel with support for the AppleTalk Protocal,
or you need to compile the Appletalk Protocol Kernel Module for use with
your system.
I believe that the SuSE 6.3 kernels have the Appletalk protocol compiled
directly into the kernel.
sat
--On Friday, March 10, 2000 2:22 PM +0100 "thomas.riewe"
<thomas@zeitung-zum-sonntag.de> wrote:
>> I've got a problem setting up an AppleTalk network with NetAtalk.
>> I'm a Linux beginner and built up a litte home ethernet
>> containing three computers. Two Win-PCs and one Mac, all using the
>> AppleTalk protocol.
>> One of my PCs is now running under Linux. With yast I sucessfully
>> configured my network device as eth0. Then I installed NetAtalk.
>> Following the manual, I deleted the config file (atalkd.conf).
>> Now (and before I deleted this file) if I want to start NetAtalk
>> via "rcatalk start" I get the following messages:
>> -
>> Starting netatalk:socket: Invalid argument
>> atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting. failed
>> -
>> What's going wrong?
> ask SuSE ... (scnr)
>> With Windows, my network works fine.
>> I'm using SuSE Linux 6.0 (i386) Kernel 2.0.36 and the version
>> 1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2-22 of NetAtalk.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> looks like the ddp-support is missing
> you'll need either a fitting module or a
> monolithic kernel with compiled-in ddp
>
> thomas (R)
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