I must truly be obsessed with this goose chase, because here I am back at it.
I now have my PowerBook 230 Duo connected to my AsanteTalk device which in turn is connected to a Netgear EN108 (10BASE-T) ethernet hub. All cable connections have green lights. The only other device connected to the hub is my ubuntu 8.10 64-bit machine "quad", which is set up to request an address from a DHCP server, but there is no DHCP host in the system. As a result, ifconfig does not report that there is an eth0 interface active. It seems worrisome that when I run the atalkd command, quad returns "eth0: Operation not permitted" and "atalkd: zero interfaces, exiting." nbplkup on quad returns "nbp_lookup: Cannot assign requested address".
So I then tell quad to use a fixed IP address. ifconfig reports that there is an eth0 interface active, as expected. atalkd now returns "eth0: disabled", and nbplkup returns the same "error" message as above.
I've tried a variety of different lines in atalkd.conf, including just "eth0" and nothing at all (all lines commented out). All produce essentially the same result (either "eth0; disabled" or "eth0: Operation not permitted"), although some lead to atalkd also reporting "Can't configure multicast."
My suspicion is that I still do not understand how to get netatalk to work. Do I need to put a second ethernet connection into quad, so I can try to configure netatalk on something other than eth0?
I now have my PowerBook 230 Duo connected to my AsanteTalk device which in turn is connected to a Netgear EN108 (10BASE-T) ethernet hub. All cable connections have green lights. The only other device connected to the hub is my ubuntu 8.10 64-bit machine "quad", which is set up to request an address from a DHCP server, but there is no DHCP host in the system. As a result, ifconfig does not report that there is an eth0 interface active. It seems worrisome that when I run the atalkd command, quad returns "eth0: Operation not permitted" and "atalkd: zero interfaces, exiting." nbplkup on quad returns "nbp_lookup: Cannot assign requested address".
So I then tell quad to use a fixed IP address. ifconfig reports that there is an eth0 interface active, as expected. atalkd now returns "eth0: disabled", and nbplkup returns the same "error" message as above.
I've tried a variety of different lines in atalkd.conf, including just "eth0" and nothing at all (all lines commented out). All produce essentially the same result (either "eth0; disabled" or "eth0: Operation not permitted"), although some lead to atalkd also reporting "Can't configure multicast."
My suspicion is that I still do not understand how to get netatalk to work. Do I need to put a second ethernet connection into quad, so I can try to configure netatalk on something other than eth0?