Subject: Re: AppleTalk/EtherTalk in MOL - what works
From: Brice D Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 21:57:44 MDT
Yeah, I got the same thing when I tried it. I'm going the 2 dev route
now - one via sheep_net, the other via tap (for TCP/IP).
-Brice
Christoph Ewering wrote:
>Hello Samuel!
>
>Samuel Rydh schrieb:
>...
>
>>To run AppleTalk on a tap device, you need to recompile the kernel/tap
>>module with the line
>>
>>#define CONFIG_ETHERTAP_MC
>>
>>added to the linux/drivers/net/ethertap.c file. This will add
>>multicast support to the tap interface which is needed by
>>AppleTalk. You must also configure atalkd to route between
>>tap0 and eth0 (tap0 will show up as a separate zone in your
>>network).
>>
>
>This does not work for me. kernel does not compile (rsynced benh-kernel
>2.4.6 one hour ago)
>
>Cause I´m not a programmer I do not know what´s wrong. This error exists
>since 2.4.0 i think so.
>
>So here comes the error-message:
>
>gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.6-0712/include -Wall
>-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
>-fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe
>-ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS
>-include /usr/src/linux-2.4.6-0712/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o
>ethertap.o ethertap.c
>ethertap.c: In function `set_multicast_list':
>ethertap.c:161: request for member `groups' in something not a structure
>or union
>make[2]: *** [ethertap.o] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.6-0712/drivers/net'
>make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_net] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.6-0712/drivers'
>make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
>
>Thanks and bye,
> Christoph
>
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