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Re: [suse-ham-e] Installing and configuring AX25
- From: Kai Altenfelder <ka@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:44:27 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20001016104434.B6554@xxxxxxx>
On Sat, Oct 14, Jean-Paul ROUBELAT wrote:
> I think most people will agree that it's really a pain for beginners to
> configure and start ax25 under LINUX.
Agreed. :-}
> To have the kernel already compiled and the apps and tools installed is
> already a good thing, but this is only 30% of the job.
>
> Some task they don't understand :
>
> - how to (and why) load the modules
> - what is a start script (and how to write/modify/configure it)
> - what to run and what to configure in the start script
> - how to edit and change the (multiple) configuration files
> - what driver to use for each hardware
> - and so on...
What do you think is best: To install and configure this atuff auto-
magically without bothering the user of what is done in the background,
i.e. with YaST/2 or to improve the documentation perhaps by rewriting the
whole stuff and to concentrate on the main issues?
> I know there is already a ax25 how-to, but if we could help beginners to
> have a system running ax25 without spending weeks and headaches, this should
> help them a lot.
>
> What about :
> - automatic/semi-automatic configuration
> - hardware and interrupts detection
> - installation scripts
> - ???
Please help me because I am ignorant in this case: How do you autodetect
a TNC connected to the serial port? What I can think of is to autodetect
all PCI-or PCMCIA-based cards, e.g. the new PCI-SCC card from Baycom. But
how to deal with the remaining (bigger) part of ham hardware?
Apart from these maybe small problems this is exactly what I want to do
in the future.
> I know, this may be a dream, but if nobody dreams, nothing will happen !
My dream is to call YaST/2, install the hardware drivers and configure
them within one step and off you go. This would be really smooth!
73, Kai
--
Kai Altenfelder, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, D-90443 Nuernberg
Tel.: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-74053-489, EMail: ka@xxxxxxx
Ham: DL3LBA PGP public key available
> I think most people will agree that it's really a pain for beginners to
> configure and start ax25 under LINUX.
Agreed. :-}
> To have the kernel already compiled and the apps and tools installed is
> already a good thing, but this is only 30% of the job.
>
> Some task they don't understand :
>
> - how to (and why) load the modules
> - what is a start script (and how to write/modify/configure it)
> - what to run and what to configure in the start script
> - how to edit and change the (multiple) configuration files
> - what driver to use for each hardware
> - and so on...
What do you think is best: To install and configure this atuff auto-
magically without bothering the user of what is done in the background,
i.e. with YaST/2 or to improve the documentation perhaps by rewriting the
whole stuff and to concentrate on the main issues?
> I know there is already a ax25 how-to, but if we could help beginners to
> have a system running ax25 without spending weeks and headaches, this should
> help them a lot.
>
> What about :
> - automatic/semi-automatic configuration
> - hardware and interrupts detection
> - installation scripts
> - ???
Please help me because I am ignorant in this case: How do you autodetect
a TNC connected to the serial port? What I can think of is to autodetect
all PCI-or PCMCIA-based cards, e.g. the new PCI-SCC card from Baycom. But
how to deal with the remaining (bigger) part of ham hardware?
Apart from these maybe small problems this is exactly what I want to do
in the future.
> I know, this may be a dream, but if nobody dreams, nothing will happen !
My dream is to call YaST/2, install the hardware drivers and configure
them within one step and off you go. This would be really smooth!
73, Kai
--
Kai Altenfelder, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, D-90443 Nuernberg
Tel.: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-74053-489, EMail: ka@xxxxxxx
Ham: DL3LBA PGP public key available
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