no AppleTalk?

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Jul 12 02:45:41 UTC 2010


> What I'm really trying to do is set up an AppleTalk printer. I get the
> same error message from the pap command.

Do you really need an AppleTalk printer? Mac OS X all support cups/lpd 
if IIRC.


>
> I know AppleTalk requires kernel support which may or may not be
> compiled in, so one theory is that it's not there on Ubuntu. I've found
> a web page <http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man7/ddp.7.html>
> which suggests Ubuntu does have AppleTalk support, but I'm not sure how
> to prove or disprove it.
>

You probably have to recompile the kernel to enable the ddp module.




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