ancient history ...

ancient history ...

[Niall Parker]

Hello,

I'm trying to get an old machine I had running years ago back online and I'm 
running into problems, maybe someone here with a good memory can help me.

The system is running kernel 2.0.37 with ax.25 compiled in (no modules) and 
using the ax25-utils-2.0.12. I've managed to get the system running and hearing 
traffic but when I try to connect using call I get

---

[niall@ve7hexgw /tmp]$ call lsp spr
GW4PTS AX.25 Connect v1.11
*** Connected to spr
Error opening terminal: xterm.
[niall@ve7hexgw /tmp]$

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the trace of packets going back and forth for this

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[Thu Jul  8 02:57:34 2004]
Port lsp: AX25: VE7SPR-8->ID <UI C> pid=Text
0000  TheNet Plus 2.08 (SPR).

[Thu Jul  8 03:07:03 2004]
Port lsp: AX25: VE7HEX->SPR <C C P>

[Thu Jul  8 03:07:05 2004]
Port lsp: AX25: SPR->VE7HEX <UA R F>

[Thu Jul  8 03:07:05 2004]
Port lsp: AX25: VE7HEX->SPR <D C P>

[Thu Jul  8 03:07:06 2004]
Port lsp: AX25: SPR->VE7HEX <UA R F>

----

It appears my system is dropping the connection as soon as it gets an 
acknowledgement. Any ideas what is configured wrong ? The system worked fine 
when I was using it 4 years ago, though I mainly used it for tcp/ip stuff and 
didn't do much with ax.25/netrom etc.

The error message above is not within the call executable, nor can I find it in 
the ax25-utils source anywhere. The system is very limited for debugging, no 
strace/gdb etc (it was stripped down to run in 2 MB RAM) and short of rebuilding 
another box with the old distribution CDs I no longer have anything this old 
running.

Any ideas appreciated.

						... Niall (VE7HEX)

Re: ancient history ...

[Niall Parker]

Willy & Linda Peake wrote:
> ---- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Niall Parker" <niall@ve7hex.ampr.org>
> To: <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:53 AM
> Subject: ancient history ...
> 
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm trying to get an old machine I had running years ago back online and
> 
> I'm
> 
>>running into problems, maybe someone here with a good memory can help me.
>>
>>The system is running kernel 2.0.37 with ax.25 compiled in (no modules)
> 
> and
> 
>>using the ax25-utils-2.0.12. I've managed to get the system running and
> 
> hearing
> 
>>traffic but when I try to connect using call I get
>>
>>---
>>
>>[niall@ve7hexgw /tmp]$ call lsp spr
>>GW4PTS AX.25 Connect v1.11
>>*** Connected to spr
>>Error opening terminal: xterm.
>>[niall@ve7hexgw /tmp]$
>>
> 
> 
> Looks to me like it couldn't open an x-terminal session at either at your
> box or at spr..

 From what I recall of using it before, call was a completely command line app 
that didn't do anything fancy with X ... just as I am typing though I'm 
wondering if it may be a terminal type issue ... after some more experimentation 
I find I can get it to fail similarly with TERM=xterm or vt100 or linux (ie the 
"xterm" in the error line above is actually the variable TERM in the shell)

More fiddling ... or perhaps I should update everything a bit ... has anyone 
recommendations for minimal boot/rescue distributions using more modern kernels 
? (the system above was based on a cramdisk image)

					... Niall

Re: ancient history ...

[Arno Verhoeven]

Niall Parker wrote:

>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> [niall@ve7hexgw /tmp]$ call lsp spr
>>> GW4PTS AX.25 Connect v1.11
>>> *** Connected to spr
>>> Error opening terminal: xterm.
>>> [niall@ve7hexgw /tmp]$
>>>
>>
>>
>> Looks to me like it couldn't open an x-terminal session at either at 
>> your
>> box or at spr..
>
>
> From what I recall of using it before, call was a completely command 
> line app that didn't do anything fancy with X ... just as I am typing 
> though I'm wondering if it may be a terminal type issue ... after some 
> more experimentation I find I can get it to fail similarly with 
> TERM=xterm or vt100 or linux (ie the "xterm" in the error line above 
> is actually the variable TERM in the shell)
>

Try  "raw mode"

       call -r lsp spr

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Re: ancient history ...

[Niall Parker]

Arno Verhoeven wrote:
> Niall Parker wrote:
 >> ...
>> though I'm wondering if it may be a terminal type issue ... after some 
>> more experimentation I find I can get it to fail similarly with 
>> TERM=xterm or vt100 or linux (ie the "xterm" in the error line above 
>> is actually the variable TERM in the shell)
>>
> 
> Try  "raw mode"
> 
>       call -r lsp spr

That seems to work fine, any ideas why I need to use raw mode now ? (I 
definitely didn't use it before).

						... Niall