On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:49:44AM +0200, Joerg Reuter wrote:
There is a start of a configuration script on http://www.1409.org/projects/ax25-config.html The problem is, however, that the script for the user interface also writes the startup script instead of just dumping the configuration variables to a file. I'd like to see a more flexible solution.
This is true, however the configuration is also dumped into a configuration file /etc/ax25-config.conf which can be sourced by a shell-script (using . /etc/ax25-config.conf). Actually once I had a generic start/stop script which used this file. It is definitely possible to write such a script without having to change ax25-config itself. Mirko favored the hardcoded up/down scripts because people can tweak them if they have special needs. The main problem with ax25-config is that it is written as shell script which results in rather unreadable code. I would like to rewrite it in python and give it (optionally) a graphical interface. But currently a have no spare time to do so.
Please help me because I am ignorant in this case: How do you autodetect a TNC connected to the serial port?
It's tricky due to the great number of different firmware implementations and you have to take care not to accidently send UI frames while probing the hardware. Worse, there's one case you cannot detect: pure KISS TNCs.
par96, serial baycom, yam etc aren't easy to detect either. Even worse, yam and flexepp can be programmed and I don't know if probing could damage these devices.
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!
Indeed!
I would prefer a distribution independend approach. I is great that SuSE is supporting ham radio in its distribution but I don't think that _all_ hams will switch to SuSE (i am in love with debian, sorry ;) and as (ham-) developer resources are limited it would be better to collaborate and to come up with a distibution independent solution. -hp -- Hans-Peter Zorn, Karlsruhe, Germany http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uhsm/ hpz@gmx.net (preferred) http://1409.org/people/hp/ hp@1409.org (hamradio stuff)