Re: IBM Appletalk card

[hirsch@air.steve.net (Steven N. Hirsch)]

In article <64atl7$6nm$1@icarus.mlmorgan.dyn.ml.org>, Michael Land Morgan wrote:
>In article <3468A27C.5DD6@sparc5.augustana.edu>,
>Shawn Beattie  <sbeattie@sparc5.augustana.edu> wrote:
>>Mitchell Spector wrote:
>>> 
>>> In article "Ron McGowan" <ronmac@pacbell.net> writes...
>>> 
>>> >I have a card, made by Apple, designed to fit IBM style Box
>>> >Copyrighted 1985,
>
>There has been work to get some ISA LocalTalk cards working with Linux
>(UNIX clone for x86 and others) and the UNIX AppleTalk server netatalk.
>I don't know whether the drivers support the cards being discussed here,
>but I found a few URLs that may help, especially if Linux is of any
>interest.
>
>Netatalk (UNIX AppleTalk): http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/
>A LocalTalk PC Board Info Page: http://www.the4cs.com/~corin/localtalk/
>Localtalk PC driver for Linux: http://www.math.umn.edu/~bradford/ltpc.html
>COPS LocalTalk Driver for Linux: http://www.coredcs.com/~onyx/cops.html

The original Apple LocalTalk PC board is supported under Linux w/
Netatalk.  Unfortunately, there is a low-level timing problem which
prevents this combination from serving a //gs.  The A2 Workstation
card does work properly, though.

If you can find a COPS, Farallon or Daystar adapter, these are also
supported under Linux and will work with a //gs.

I added ProDOS/GSOS support to netatalk, though it is not part of the
base distribution (available as a patch from the U-Mich home page).

Steve