As of Red Hat ES 4.0, Red Hat chose to remove AppleTalk support from the kernel. Since there is no RPM which will enable Appletalk support, we have created simple instructions to compile a kernel using the same basic options as Red Hat chooses. We cannot guarentee these instructions, however we have tested and expect these will work well for most users.

  • Install Red Hat ES 4.0 with the development tools.
  • Download the latest Kernel from Kernel.org
    • cd /usr/src
    wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-version.tar.bz2
  • Untar and cd into new kernel directory
    • tar -xjf linux-version.tar.bz2
    cd linux-version
  • Get .config that has AppleTalk enabled from ugraf.com
    • wget http://ugraf.com/documentation/.config
  • Run make oldconfig and use all defaults
    • make oldconfig (choose the defaults for any questions here)
  • Compile Kernel and modules
    • make && make modules
  • Install Kernel and modules
    • make modules_install && make install
  • After testing new kernel make it the default
    • vi /etc/grub.conf
    change the default to equal the new kernel