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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CAP or NetAtalk supported in FreeBSD?
Date: 25 Oct 1995 14:16:50 GMT
Organization: Applied Phyics Lab
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Message-ID: <46lgsi$iv7@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
References: <46fdpa$h6m@staff.cs.su.oz.au> <46ivgl$9ma@molnir.brunel.ac.uk> <leo_cazares-2410950956150001@egmac219.globalvillag.com>
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Leo Cazares wrote in article <leo_cazares-2410950956150001@egmac219.globalvillag.com> :
>
>In article <46ivgl$9ma@molnir.brunel.ac.uk>, Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk (Nik
>Clayton) wrote:
>
[CAP discussion deleted]
>
>> Last time I looked at Netatalk (which various people have recommended to
>> me) it listed itself as only working with SunOS 4.1.3 and Ultrix. I
>> haven't put any effort into getting it to work with FreeBSD yet.
>
>I think that the same (or related?) problem exists with netatalk. It should
>work fine if you have an ed0 device. I built the latest netatalk on my
>FreeBSD 2.0.5 machine, but it doesn't work and I have not found out why.
>Steven G. Kargl forwarded some patches to the FreeBSD ep0 driver, but it didn't
>work for me and I have not had any time to try and figure out why it is not
>working. Patching the ep0 driver and rebuilding the kernel was trivial, but
>the netatalk programs get some kind of "network device not configured"
>error and give up. My network device is fine because I can communicate with
>other machines using TCP/IP (and it runs CAP when I boot Linux).
>
What does the boot message say when your machine comes up with
the ep0 driver? Does telnet and ftp work with the ep0 driver?
I use ep0 and the patches I sent without a problem.
>> I'll cheerfully share my configuration notes on CAP with you. Mail me as
>> nik@blueberry.co.uk for more info if you need it.
>>
>> N
>
>It would be useful if documentation regarding known problems with ep0. I
>would like to hear from people running netatalk (preferably) or CAP on
>a 2.0.5 BSD system using the ep0 device.
>
>- Leo
>
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