Hi, Seems not much activity on this thread? I have Suse 8 installed (Text mode) on a Pentium 200 with 32 Mb RAM. I want to get AX25 to work with a serial baycom modem for packet radio. My callsign is ZS6BNE in South Africa. When installing AX25 using YAST2 the software is installed , but where do I go from here? Is it nescessary to recompile the kernal as many of the "How to's" state? Any guidelines for the Baycom would be most welcome. I have installed LinPac which complains that the AX25 ports have not been set up. Looking forward to any comments and suggestions. (Please don't ask me to use the How to , I've been down that road and it is too complex. :o) ) I'm looking for a practical , working solution. Looking forward to your reply, Thanks, Eddie Leighton , Lichtenburg , South Africa.
When installing AX25 using YAST2 the software is installed , but where do I go from here?
Is it nescessary to recompile the kernal as many of the "How to's" state?
Hi Eddie, You could find out if AX25 support is built into your kernel by examining the SuSE kernel config. - Make sure you have the "kernel-source" rpm installed - cd /usr/src/linux - make cloneconfig - make menuconfig - scroll to "amateur radio support" and hit enter to examine Here with SuSE 8.2 amateur radio support is enabled and AX.25 options are enabled, including the Baycom drivers, as modules. If you look in /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/net/hamradio you should see a few Baycom drivers. Here's what I have: gambit:/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers # find . -name baycom* ./net/hamradio/baycom_epp.o ./net/hamradio/baycom_par.o ./net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.o ./net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.o If this is all done for you like it is here, check out section 6.1 in the How-To (http://www.febo.com/packet/linux-ax25/AX25-HOWTO/AX25-HOWTO-6.html) under "creating a Baycom device". This explains how to use insmod to install the module and make sure it's up and running. Note the part that mentions you need to have the modem up and configured when you do this. The next step in the how-to tells you how to use ifconfig to bring up the new interface (bc0) and how to use axparms to assign your callsign to the device. I think this should get you going. Note I didn't explain how to build a new kernel if you need to. I haven't done that in years myself, so I'll leave that up to you to find out. If you do need to build your own kernel, check out the SuSE admin manual that should have come with your SuSE package, or check the docs on the SuSE website. I'm sure it's documented there. -- John LeMay kc2kth Senior Technical Manager NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
Just reading the message below. You should find configuring ax25 support in SUSE 8 quite easy. If you goto the suse control panel and select install/remove programs. Then install all the ham radio programs supplied by suse. You must install Libax25, axtools & axutils minimum. Configure /etc/ax25 files, i can help you there if you like. To activate suse linux kernel support insmod ax25 insmod netrom insmod baycom (if you use baycom) you then need to turn on interfaces with kissattach etc etc I put all mine in one script and run that at boot time. For YFS BBS i never had to recompile the supplied Suse 8Pro kernel. My ports are: 1 x 144.925 IP port 1 X 70cms mail forwarding port 1 X axip Internet connectivity port 1 X axudp Internet connectivity port 1 X ipip (Tunel) ampr net gateways port 1 X eth0 ethernet port link to my ADSL Router 1 X eth1 ethernet port for Lan I run: Linux FBB Exim SMTP mail Qpop Pop3 server INN News server Apache Web Server HTPP Converse server MailGW Mailgateway (ax25 <-> TCPIP) and more. This is all done on one Suse8 400Mhz Machine which sits most of its life idling away nicely. CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 98.0% idle As a BBS system this is where Linux wins, it just runs and runs and doesnt require a fast machine. If i can help you any more please let me know. Ian G6VEY SYSOP GB7YFS telnet://gb7yfs.org.uk http://www.gb7yfs.org.uk On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:21, Eddie Leighton wrote:
Hi,
Seems not much activity on this thread?
I have Suse 8 installed (Text mode) on a Pentium 200 with 32 Mb RAM.
I want to get AX25 to work with a serial baycom modem for packet radio. My callsign is ZS6BNE in South Africa.
When installing AX25 using YAST2 the software is installed , but where do I go from here?
Is it nescessary to recompile the kernal as many of the "How to's" state?
Any guidelines for the Baycom would be most welcome.
I have installed LinPac which complains that the AX25 ports have not been set up.
Looking forward to any comments and suggestions. (Please don't ask me to use the How to , I've been down that road and it is too complex. :o) ) I'm looking for a practical , working solution.
Looking forward to your reply,
Thanks,
Eddie Leighton , Lichtenburg , South Africa.
Hello Ian, Thursday, June 12, 2003, 5:21:26 PM, you wrote: IH> Ian IH> G6VEY IH> SYSOP GB7YFS Fancy meeting you here :) -- Best regards, Tony M0AWB
Greetings! Has anyone managed to get GPSK31 or KPSK working with SuSE8.2? I have been trying for ages to get them working. All I get are two error messages: Unable to open audio device /dev/audio. Inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000 /dev/audio has the correct permissions, as far as I can tell (owner root, group audio). I have tried altering it to me as the owner. I have tried altering the sample rate in K Control Centre --> Sound system, but it has no effect. I have also tried disabling aRTs. Starting the programs in Libranet gives the same error messages, but I can run PSK31 without problems in Windows98. Any advice will be gratefully received. 73 Keith G4JVX
Hi Keith,
Has anyone managed to get GPSK31 or KPSK working with SuSE8.2?
KPSK is working like a champ here under Suse 8.2. What kind of of soundcard do you use? It looks that you have a AC97 like Soundcard.
Unable to open audio device /dev/audio. Inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000
These cards can't switch to another sample rate than 48000. Under M$shit the multimedia lib will do resample, under Linux is no such lib. I had to disable the onboard sound and insert my old SB PCI 128. I heard that Alsa hase the resampling feature but I dont know if its working with a AC97 sound card. 73 de Wolf, DL2WRJ -- All power corrupts, but we need electricity. (/usr/games/fortunes)
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