Recent content by NJRoadfan

FYI for those with USB TashTalks, don't unplug them while TashRouter is running. Otherwise it crashes. I posted a PR to handle removal so the other ports stay running. Although if you replug-in the TashTalk, you have to restart TashRouter for now as there isn't a straightforward way to restart...

Full LocalTalk speed. It will not work with Basilisk II as it requires additional coding in the emulator to treat it as a LocalTalk device vs. a serial device.

Software-wise, you have TashRouter, jrouter (no personal experience with this) and , Apple Internet Router running on a Mac. Hardware-wise I have a Kinetics Fastpath 4 and a Shiva Fastpath 5 to test against. TashRouter has some quirks, but has proven very stable inter-operating with atalkd and...

I loosened up the detection for a case insensitive search of "tashtalk" in the product name. That should cover most anything.

I can actually test that since I have a LocalTalk compatible printer on my desk at the moment (the same one that broke the original TashTalk firmware!). On a related note. Is the USB VID/PID expected to be stable with the TashTalk USB dongles? I have setup auto-detect with that VID/PID plus a...

...and with that A2SERVER now supports TashTalk USB.

Preferably doing like it is now, with atalkd in control. The kernel only handled AARP and DDP traffic, the rest of the higher level protocols is handled by atalkd. One thing a user-mode stack could do is make using a TashTalk easier. It would have to strip off the long DDP header off of RTMP...

If you are looking for a way to detect if a TashTalk USB is plugged into your Linux box, the below bash script will detect it: #! /bin/bash usbdevlist=( /dev/ttyUSB* ) for item in "${usbdevlist[@]}"; do if [ "$(udevadm info -a -n $item 2> /dev/null | grep TashTalk)" ]; then echo...

Nothing has actually been started. Just a discussion opened by @slipperygrey. A preferred way to do this would be to abstract most of the changes. Netatalk already has the netddp functions defined in netddp.h to partly abstract socket communications. That alone should get afpd, papd, a2boot...

This number seems high for a "shim" for some reason, particularly the build system changes. This is meson we're talking about here, not autotools. 🤪 There is an open issue for this now: https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/3116 The atalkd daemon naturally has the most hooks into the...

Here is the patch that "broke the camel's back": https://patchew.org/linux/20260614095226.1210-1-zhaoyz24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn/ Luckily some major fixes were applied with help from @dougg3 and others before this happened. I don't have any issue moving this to a userspace stack, but some more...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drops-AppleTalk Thanks AI.... Can't say I'm surprised given the slop of AI bug reports flooding everything. Overall it seems to be driving maintainers of open source software to the point of quitting at an alarming rate. Hopefully it won't be too hard to...

The fact that its showing the whole fiber network connected to a Fastpath confirms this was just a media adapter. The Fastpath only has a LocalTalk and an Ethernet port on it. Also, dedicating a Fastpath for a single LaserWriter is a very expensive and silly thing to do. This poster dates to...

The "proper" way to do it is tunnel AppleTalk over TCP/IP. Apple's AURP can do this via jrouter or, if you like period correct crashing, Apple Internet Router. All the hardware AppleTalk routers (Cayman Gatorbox, Shiva Fastpath, and Cisco boxes with AppleTalk capable IOS) do it too.

My AppleCD SC+ has been dead for over a decade now. I haven't pulled it apart, but that model has surface mount leakers, see: https://www.asterontech.com/Asterontech/next_cdrom_refurb.html