Richard L Shepherd wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
>
> > I happily use netatalk on 3 debian machines using ethernet cards which all
> > use the wd driver module. Today I go to set it up on a DEC XLe6180 which
> > has a builtin Intel EtherExpress 100 card in it. The IP drivers work
> > great at both 10 and 100 Mbps. However Netatalk just isn't happy, it
> > can't see the appletalk network out there (well it kind-of worked once out
> > of many tries---picked an invalid net number and could aecho some other
> > machines...).
> >
> > I didn't think it was relevant which ethernet driver I was using, but
> > eventually, after comparing with the other machines I have, it all pointed
> > to the ethernet card and driver being the culprit! Sure enough someone
> > tells me that appletalk won't go on any Intel cards, is this true? If so,
> > are there any other cards people know of that I should stare clear of to?
> > I'm installing this server for lots of people with Macs to share files
> > with...
>
> Further to this problem I have experimented some more and have the
> following results, all on the one machine, using different cards,
> attempting to run netatalk on the same network:
>
> Card Description: Driver (Module): Results:
> ----------------- ---------------- --------
> Intel EtherExpressPro 100 (builtin) eepro100 BAD
> Digital 21140 tulip BAD
> Western Digital 8013EPC wd Excellent
>
> While all work fine for regular IP (the first 2 especially nice as they do
> 100Mbps) only the last one is consistently good for seeing the (large)
> appletalk network we have here...weird, annoying and frustrating...
>
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Hi Richard,
On ot boxes that do not support apple talk, did you do a kernel compile
specifying in the net section to include apple talk in the kernel? I
have found that whenever I have a new system that it is wise to make a
custom kernel to match my system parameters.
Though the Debian package comes with most items loadable as modules, I
still go through a kernel compile.
Hope this helps :-)
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