Suse 8.*

Suse 8.*

[Colin Harris]

A little advice please from a Suse user which I can pass on
to a raw recruit. He has I think Suse 8.4 or close to it. He
has found ax25-apps / tools etc on disc 4 but cannot find
libax25. He tried libax25-0.0.9.tar.gz install but got loads
of errors. He then phoned me. Can anyone advise of the
existence of libax25 on Suse-8.? and on which diisc.
If_not_exist , which version should he use please so that he
can download it. I don't know the kernel version.

- Regards Colin

Re: Suse 8.*

[Robert Steinhäußer]

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Hi Colin,

Colin Harris schrieb:
> A little advice please from a Suse user which I can pass on
> to a raw recruit. He has I think Suse 8.4 or close to it.

there is no SuSE 8.4... only 6.4 (no longer updated by SuSE), 7.0-7.3 and 8.0.

> He
> has found ax25-apps / tools etc on disc 4 but cannot find
> libax25. He tried libax25-0.0.9.tar.gz install but got loads
> of errors. He then phoned me. Can anyone advise of the
> existence of libax25 on Suse-8.? and on which diisc.

Quite few infos...

Since he has ax25-apps/tools, I suppose he is using a "professional" version. 
The "personal" version does not have any ham radio packages.

The dependencies autoselect libax25 from within YaST(2). He should install via 
YaST (up to 7.3) or YaST2 (since 7.<something>), it will prompt for the 
correct CDs. libax25 is there. Or check for it in INDEX.gz on any CD.

73, Robert DL1NC/N9KBK
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Redhat 7.3

[Michael Hart]

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Hi everyone,

I have installed RedHat 7.3 and wanted to set it up for packet.

I have recompiled the kernel to include AX25 / ROSE etc as well as kernel
support for the baycom and soundcard modems.  It all still boots up OK.

I have two problems.

First the kernel now doesn't seem to be able to find some of the libraries
it needs (eg for the ext3 filesystem) - I compiled the new kernel using the
following commands

make menuconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
cp /usr/src/.../boot/bzImage /boot
make modules
make modules_install

do I have to specify a different initrd in grub as I do with the kernel?

I have attached a zip file containing dmesg, messages and .config (kernel)
for anyone who wants to assist me.

Secondly, I have had a look though the AX25 howto at
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/AX25-HOWTO/index.html and had a look
though all my install disks for the AX25 files.  I have 3 install disks, 2
program source disks and a kernel source disk.  The AX25 files is on none of
them.

I got the ax25 ackages from sourceforge.  The libs tar.gz file uncompressed,
compiled and installed OK.  I uncompressed the tools package but could not
get it to compile.  A screendump s in the attached zip in a file called
errors.

Any help with these problems would be appreciated.

Michael
vk2jxi


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