Port not active?

Port not active?

[pd]

I am having the following problem getting AX.25 going on my 2.4.18 RedHat 
system.  The TNC is connected and in KISS mode.  The kernel modules "ax25" 
and "mkiss" are loaded.  /etc/ax25/axports has appropriate stuff in it.  I 
give the kissattach command and it completes ok.  ifconfig shows the port UP 
and RUNNING in AX25 mode, with the correct HWaddr.

But when I try to use it, for example with a "call" command, I get the 
messages:
  axconfig: port vhf not active
  call: no AX.25 port data configured

Am I missing a step somewhere?

Versions are:
   Kernel 2.4.18, with AX.25 stuff included
   libax25 0.0.10
   kissattach 0.0.8
   call 0.0.6

Re: Port not active?

[Arno Verhoeven]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, pd wrote:

> I am having the following problem getting AX.25 going on my 2.4.18 RedHat
> system.  The TNC is connected and in KISS mode.  The kernel modules "ax25"
> and "mkiss" are loaded.  /etc/ax25/axports has appropriate stuff in it.  I
> give the kissattach command and it completes ok.  ifconfig shows the port UP
> and RUNNING in AX25 mode, with the correct HWaddr.
>
> But when I try to use it, for example with a "call" command, I get the
> messages:
>   axconfig: port vhf not active
>   call: no AX.25 port data configured
>
> Am I missing a step somewhere?

Did you assign an IP address to the port? You need to give it an IP
address, even if you don't use IP.
You could use 10.0.0.1 if you don't have an IP address assign to you.

73, PE1ICQ  Arno Verhoeven
--------------------------------
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smtp   pe1icq@pi8zaa.ampr.org
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Re: Port not active?

[M Taylor]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 08:45:59AM +0000, pd wrote:
> I am having the following problem getting AX.25 going on my 2.4.18 RedHat 
> system.  The TNC is connected and in KISS mode.  The kernel modules "ax25" 
> and "mkiss" are loaded.  /etc/ax25/axports has appropriate stuff in it.  I 
> give the kissattach command and it completes ok.  ifconfig shows the port UP 
> and RUNNING in AX25 mode, with the correct HWaddr.
> 
> But when I try to use it, for example with a "call" command, I get the 
> messages:
>   axconfig: port vhf not active
>   call: no AX.25 port data configured

Could you send us your axports file, the kissattach command, and the
actual call command.

E.g.

# /etc/ax25/axports
#
# The format of this file is:
#
# name callsign speed paclen window description
#
vhf     VE1MCT-8        9600    255     2       144.090 MHz (1200  bps)

root@ve1mct# /usr/sbin/kissattach -m 256 /dev/ttyS0 vhf vhf.ve1mct.ampr.org

ve1mct@ve1mct$ call vhf ve1aeh

Re: Port not active?

[pd]

Something about your requests for more information jogged my thinking - the IP 
address has to be *non-zero*!

So instead of putting 0.0.0.0 on the kissattach command I bothered to look up 
my assigned IP address, tried it, and it worked fine.

Thanks for the help.  Now on to the daemons and APRS...