Netatalk on Fedora 4

Sam Peterson peabodyenator at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 23:52:42 UTC 2006


Appletalk is Apple's old home networking protocol.  It's not used very
much anymore.

On 3/1/06, Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote:
> What is appletalk and netatalk? What do they do?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Norman
> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric J. Feldhusen" <efeldhusen.lists at gmail.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Netatalk on Fedora 4
>
>
> The stock Fedora Core 4 kernel support appletalk by default, you just
> have to type
>
> modprobe appletalk
>
> at the command line.
>
> And what I did on one of my machines, is I edited the /etc/modprobe.conf
> file to include
>
> alias appletalk appletalk
>
> That should load the appletalk kernel module.
>
> Then, just add netatalk via yum and you're all set.
>
> Eric
>
> Raymond Norton wrote:
> > I need to compile a new core 4 kernel with appletalk. I found this link
> > which describes the process:
> >
> > http://www.colug.net/pipermail/colug432/2005-October/001635.html
> >
> > In /boot I find initrd-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4.img
> >
> >
> > In order to recompile the kernel the doc indicates I need the src rpm. I
> > have found a couple list , but am not sure which one to install.
> >
> > Could use a pointer, or advice on how to set up my kernel to use
> > appletalk in the simplest way.
> >
> > Raymond Norton
> >
>
>
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