Subject: Re: Do current kernels work?
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/18/1998 16:15:33
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Dave Huang wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > Do you have any other network interfaces besides mc0? NETATALK probably
> > implicitly assumes there's a network interface around...
> 
> No, mc0 is my only ethernet interface... I do have PPP and SLIP
> interfaces though. NETATALK's aarp.c wants ether_sprintf(), which only
> exists if you have an ethernet card. Someone else on the list noticed
> this a few months ago; perhaps I'll send a PR about it... dunno what the
> fix would be though. Maybe silently ignore NETATALK if NETHER == 0?

Probably the thing to do is to conditionalize the aarp code which wants
ether_sprintf so it doesn't get made if NETHER==0. It'd be legit to only
fire up Appletalk over a ppp link.

Take care,

Bill