no AppleTalk?

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, July 12, 2010 03:16 PM, Pete Gontier wrote:
> My only printer speaks only AppleTalk. The hardware works fine. The goal
> is to avoid buying another. I've avoided that for longer than some
> people on this list have been alive. Why stop the tradition now?

Certainly...


>
> If Ubuntu's kernel doesn't have DDP, then I should give up. Can anyone
> confirm or deny this? Might the server kernel have DDP compiled in?

There is an ipddp.ko module...looks like I was mistaken. I only need AFP 
and I am using that on OpenSolaris so I can help here sorry.


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>     Pete Gontier <http://pete.gontier.org/>
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> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
> <mailto:christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>> wrote:
>
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>      > 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.
>
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>      >
>      > 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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