Ubuntu 8.10 and AX25

Ubuntu 8.10 and AX25

[Christof Bodner]

Hi!

I have a SignaLink USB device and it's working fine, except AX25 in
Linux (mhm, so it's not really working fine, isn't it?)

If I start it with
sudo mdprobe mkiss
sudo soundmodem -v 5

I get 

---
sm[10003]: mkiss: ifname ax0 mtu 256 hwaddr OE8BCK-1 ipaddr 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255
sm[10003]: audio: starting "/dev/dsp2"
sm[10003]: audio: sample rate 9600 input fragsz 256 numfrags 512 output
fragsz 256 numfrags 820
sm[10003]: unknown kiss packet: 0x80 0xa2
sm[10003]: unknown kiss packet: 0x20 0xa2
Tx: fm OE8BCK-1 to QST-0 UI  pid=CC
...
---

Then a lot of Tx frames are sent (would be sent if I would switch in
TX) 

Does anybody know hoe to turn it off at Ubuntu 8.10? 

And then, exactly ONE RX frame is captured, e.g.

Rx: fm OE1UHA-9 to TX0R18-0 via OE1XQR-0,WIDE2-0 UIv pid=F0
`,.Xmz3>/ON THE ROAD

dmesg gives the output:
[ 4763.523335] usb 5-2.1.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 4763.525286] input: Burr-Brown from TI               USB Audio CODEC
as /class/input/input6
[ 4763.527643] input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [Burr-Brown from TI
USB Audio CODEC ] on usb-0000:01:09.2-2.1.4
[ 4764.858704] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[ 4834.952618] NET: Registered protocol family 3
[ 4835.007632] mkiss: AX.25 Multikiss, Hans Albas PE1AYX
[ 4850.084131] mkiss: ax0: crc mode is auto.
[ 4850.160087] mkiss: ax0: Trying crc-smack
[ 4850.316183] mkiss: ax0: Trying crc-flexnet

Some other correct RX-frames can be received by restarting soundmodem.
So why do I have to restart soundmodem given this result?
---
sm[10313]: mkiss: ifname ax0 mtu 256 hwaddr OE8BCK-1 ipaddr 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255
sm[10313]: audio: starting "/dev/dsp2"
sm[10313]: audio: sample rate 9600 input fragsz 256 numfrags 512 output
fragsz 256 numfrags 820
sm[10313]: unknown kiss packet: 0x80 0xa2
sm[10313]: unknown kiss packet: 0x20 0xa2
Tx: fm OE8BCK-1 to QST-0 UI  pid=CC
...
--- 

It's a little bit annoying to restart soundmodem each minute, so I need
your tips.

73 de christof, oe8bck

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Re: Ubuntu 8.10 and AX25

[don]

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On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:34:14PM +0200, Christof Bodner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a SignaLink USB device and it's working fine, except AX25 in
> Linux (mhm, so it's not really working fine, isn't it?)

I too have been having problems with Ubuntu 8.04, while 7.10 worked.

> ...
> Tx: fm OE8BCK-1 to QST-0 UI  pid=CC
> ...
> ---
> 
> Then a lot of Tx frames are sent (would be sent if I would switch in
> TX) 
> 
> Does anybody know hoe to turn it off at Ubuntu 8.10? 

Some of these can be turned off in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
I will attach my file.

With that, I stll get some messages about gpgkeys which I have
not figured out yet.


> And then, exactly ONE RX frame is captured, e.g.
> 
> Rx: fm OE1UHA-9 to TX0R18-0 via OE1XQR-0,WIDE2-0 UIv pid=F0
> `,.Xmz3>/ON THE ROAD

My other problem is not getting any Rx (under 8.04).

Can you tell me what alsa packages you have?
I ran "dpkg -l | grep alsa".  

-- 
Don - W7DMR

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Re: Ubuntu 8.10 and AX25

[Christof Bodner]

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Hi!

Thanks for your answer! IIRC, it worked for me in Ubuntu 7.10. But I
would like to see it working again. 

dpkg -l | grep alsa
ii  alsa-base                                 1.0.17.dfsg-2ubuntu1
ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-utils                                1.0.17-0ubuntu2
ALSA utilities
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa                        0.10.20-1
GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  libesd-alsa0                              0.2.40-0ubuntu1
Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Shared libr
ii  libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa                1.10.10-2ubuntu2
Portable Windows Library Audio Plugin for the
ii  libsdl1.2debian-alsa                      1.2.13-2ubuntu1
Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA o

I also attached my /etc/ax25/soundmodem.conf. There you can see that I
use mkiss at /dev/dsp2, as I do not exactly know te difference to kiss
(besides I have to use kissattach in the latter). I also tried to use
soundmodem -R -M. It worls a little bit longer, but not very much.

73 de oe8bck

Am Sonntag, den 05.10.2008, 11:09 -0700 schrieb don:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:34:14PM +0200, Christof Bodner wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have a SignaLink USB device and it's working fine, except AX25 in
> > Linux (mhm, so it's not really working fine, isn't it?)
> 
> I too have been having problems with Ubuntu 8.04, while 7.10 worked.
> 
> > ...
> > Tx: fm OE8BCK-1 to QST-0 UI  pid=CC
> > ...
> > ---
> > 
> > Then a lot of Tx frames are sent (would be sent if I would switch in
> > TX) 
> > 
> > Does anybody know hoe to turn it off at Ubuntu 8.10? 
> 
> Some of these can be turned off in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
> I will attach my file.
> 
> With that, I stll get some messages about gpgkeys which I have
> not figured out yet.
> 
> 
> > And then, exactly ONE RX frame is captured, e.g.
> > 
> > Rx: fm OE1UHA-9 to TX0R18-0 via OE1XQR-0,WIDE2-0 UIv pid=F0
> > `,.Xmz3>/ON THE ROAD
> 
> My other problem is not getting any Rx (under 8.04).
> 
> Can you tell me what alsa packages you have?
> I ran "dpkg -l | grep alsa".  
> 
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 Christof Bodner <oe8bck@gmx.net>
   Linux - Life is too short for reboots
         - First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they
           fight you(*). Then you win. -- Ghandi
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