From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Parat / F6FGZ Subject: Re: MFJ 1270B(TNC-2) And Linux 2.4.18 kiss Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:20:31 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FE5C84F.71561B20@free.fr> References: <3FE5B4D0.20206@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Bernard Pidoux F6BVP a =E9crit : > Jeremiah KD7DMP wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I have a little prob, I have been try to get my MFJ TNC-2 to talk t= o my > > Slackware(2.4.18 kernel) box in kiss mode for a while. The prob is = that I > > can not getting it to transmit, After doing kissattach I can recive > > traffic by using listen, but when I go to transmit using call I get > > nothing. I know that TNC works becuase i had it all working and hum= ming a > > long before, but I don't rember How I got it to work. > > > > Any ideas..? > > > > thanks and 73 > > de > > Jeremiah > > KD7DMP > > It could be a problem of ax port. > Be sure to call via axport name defined into axports file first param= eter. > > However, for your information, on two PC of different generation boar= ds > (Pentium II CPUs) I have been using successfully for years two 2 port= s > KPC9612 in kiss mode with kernel 2.2. But I have never been able to r= un > AX25 correctly with any 2.4 kernels. I always experienced interrupts > problems and kernel oops and finally Linux halted. And one of the > symptoms was that Call did not work ! Hello, Successfully using KPC9612 and kernel 2.4.18 but *WITHOUT* fpac which h= anged the system. Otherwise, 2.4.18 runs well with lot of annoying messages i= nto syslog and message of that kind: Dec 21 17:12:45 f6fgz kernel: NET: 5 messages suppressed The cause is due to listen. Don't use it and you will be happy. My config: CONFIG_HAMRADIO=3Dy CONFIG_AX25=3Dm CONFIG_NETROM=3Dm CONFIG_ROSE=3Dm (not used) CONFIG_MKISS=3Dm My script: /usr/sbin/mkiss -s 19200 -l /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ptyp1 /dev/ptyp2 /usr/sbin/mkiss -s 19200 -l /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ptyp3 /dev/ptyp4 /usr/sbin/kissattach -m 256 /dev/ttyp1 vhf f6fgz /usr/sbin/kissattach -m 256 /dev/ttyp2 uhf1 f6fgz /usr/sbin/kissattach -m 256 /dev/ttyp3 uhf2 f6fgz /usr/sbin/kissattach -m 256 /dev/ttyp4 uhf3 f6fgz /etc/ax25/axports: vhf F6FGZ-4 19200 255 2 uhf1 F6FGZ-3 19200 255 7 uhf2 F6FGZ-5 19200 255 4 uhf3 F6FGZ-6 19200 255 7 And I use Xnet v1.36 along with a local WLAN. -- 73 G=E9rard F6FGZ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html