no AppleTalk?

[Hakan Koseoglu]

Hi Pete,
On 12/07/10 18:34, Pete Gontier wrote:
> Further, you seem to suggest that AppleTalk is indeed in the Ubuntu
> kernel, and there must be some other reason all the netatalk userland
> programs I've tried say:
Your statement about Ubuntu not having the kernel modules is not correct 
but this doesn't mean that configuration for userland is supplied ready 
for PnP configuration :)

>     atp_open: Cannot assign requested address
>
>
> (Even though I've made no explicit attempt to assign any address.) What
> else can I try to diagnose this? (I've already tried making the
> interface netatalk is supposed to use explicit.)
I am not very familiar with appletalk but as I understand it still 
requires an address to be mapped to it so that hosts can talk to each 
other. After googling for a couple of minutes I found a couple of 
examples where various netatalk configuration files are manipulated but 
I'm not sure if these are relevant to your situation.

My ipddp0 interface appeared with no address, my netatalk daemon was up 
and I left it there and purged it away. I don't have any appletalk 
routers around to test anything with this protocol.

Did you look into /etc/atalktd.conf and /etc/defaults/netatalk?

I suppose it all boils down to the fact that there are so little amount 
of people with these ancient devices, not a lot of people bother testing 
them.

In an earlier mail you mentioned that you managed to mount your Ubuntu 
home on your Mac via Appletalk so I guess most of the configuration works.

One other thing I had noticed during browsing around was the CUPS 
appletalk back end, which might be the problem about printing and here's 
some more (probably out of date) documentation on that: 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleTalk