Subject: Re: kernels, modules, and appletalk
From: philippe tapon (ptapon@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 00:01:27 MST
Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
> Philippe,
>
> Have you tried enabling appletalk support under 'Network device
> Support>Appletalk devices' in the kernel config?
>
> I also have some software than needs 'Packet socket' support compiled in.
> You may have a similar sort of problem where some program or other expects
> to find these extra network functions built in to the kernel.
>
> FYI, in the past I found that one of the Yellow Dog kernels (CS1.2) wouldn't
> build with the support I needed whereas the standard kernel would.
>
> Iain
>
thanks Iain; your advice is much appreciated. The appletalk module,
which was there all the time, in
/usr/lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/kernel/net/appletalk/appletalk.o, was not
getting loaded by the command
/etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start
but it *did* get loaded (d0h!) by
/sbin/insmod appletalk
I put that command into the file at /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk, which gets
executed at every boot, and voilą! afpd and atalkd working from the
start. The YDL June 2000 archive had at least one thread on exactly the
same error message; those posts put me on the right track. Imagine
mounting a 3-gig linux partition on a Mac SE/30! Netatalk is cool.
pax
philippe
> on 17/11/00 9:37 am, philippe tapon at ptapon@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > hopefully this is interesting to a few other people out there as well. .
> > . . .
> >
> > I'm running a 2.4.0-test10 kernel I got from direct from yellowdog
> > support (thanks charles :). I've watched the bootup, read the
> > /var/log/dmesg, and it doesn't mention AppleTalk. When I start
> > appletalk
> >
> > #> /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start
> >
> > afpd starts but atalkd doesn't. (afpd runs well; I can
> > IP-AppleShare-network together Mac-On-Linux and my $HOME directory.) I
> > think I need atalkd in order to print to my old HP 520 DeskWriter. . . .
> >
> > when i try starting atalkd directly
> >
> > $> /usr/sbin/atalkd
> >
> > it spits back
> >
> > socket: Address family not supported by protocol
> > atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting
> >
> > This sounds, to my newbie eyes anyway, like I need to get AppleTalk,
> > either into the kernel or as a module. (But perhaps I'm missing
> > something obvious?)
> >
> > I got the 2.4.0-test10 source with an rsync from linux-pmac-devel at
> > ppc.linuxcare.com. I made a kernel with make menuconfig, make dep, make
> > clean and
> >
> > make vmlinux <- is this correct!? zImage didn't work. . . .)
> >
> > and ran make modules, but no modules directory appeared in my
> > /usr/src/linux directory. Now what? I could run make modules_install
> > but i don't know what to back up in case I unwittingly trash MOL, which
> > is the only way I can print at the moment.
> >
> > Or maybe I should wait for the new netatalk to come out. But helplessly
> > waiting for an update feels very non-linux. :)
> >
> > peace
> >
> > philippe
> >
> >
> >
> >
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