Appletalk Kernel Module for older Macintosh Machines

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stevenh
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Appletalk Kernel Module for older Macintosh Machines

Post by stevenh »

Hi all,

The AFP server does work fine over TCP/IP, but I was wondering if you could possibly include the Appletalk Module in the next kernel build?
That way we can run docker containers with ATALKD enabled, allowing older Macintosh machines on my network to see shared folders.

I've tried to compile the module myself with the ADM 5.0 6.x Kernel config and source from sourceforge, but INSMOD threw weird errors:
[1598038.417711] appletalk: disagrees about version of symbol skb_free_datagram
[1598038.424787] appletalk: Unknown symbol skb_free_datagram (err -22)
[1598038.431077] appletalk: disagrees about version of symbol dev_mc_add_global
[1598038.438134] appletalk: Unknown symbol dev_mc_add_global (err -22)
[1598038.444415] appletalk: disagrees about version of symbol sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason
[1598038.452162] appletalk: Unknown symbol sock_queue_rcv_skb_reason (err -22)
[1598038.459131] appletalk: disagrees about version of symbol sock_i_uid
[1598038.465580] appletalk: Unknown symbol sock_i_uid (err -22)
[1598038.471268] appletalk: disagrees about version of symbol skb_put
[1598038.477459] appletalk: Unknown symbol skb_put (err -22)
[1598038.482867] appletalk: disagrees about version of symbol dev_add_pack
[1598038.489487] appletalk: Unknown symbol dev_add_pack (err -22)
[1598038.495330] appletalk: disagrees about version of symbol skb_dequeue
[1598038.501862] appletalk: Unknown symbol skb_dequeue (err -22)

I'd be happy to build it myself if someone can help me to set up a proper kernel build environment? I don't know if editing the kernel config to add the Appletalk module as a module will even work?

Thank you!