request for AX25 help

request for AX25 help

[Tom Vavra]

I'm trying to get AX25 working on a RedHat 7.3 system.  The following
packages are on the system.

kernel   2.4.18-3
ax25-apps-0.0.6
ax25-tools-0.0.8
libax25-0.0.11

ax25 is not compiled into the kernel so I insmod   ax25.o and   netrom.o

I'm only trying to drive a kiss tnc, and provide ax25 and netrom.  When
trying to run kissattach i get

# /usr/sbin/kissattach /dev/ttyS1 port1 44.1.1.1
kissattach: Error setting line discipline: TIOCSETD: Invalid argument
Are you sure you have enabled MKISS support in the kernel
or, if you made it a module, that the module is loaded?

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Are the kernel and packages a good match?
Does the ip address in the kissattach command have to match something?


    tnx   Tom  WB8ZRL

Re: request for AX25 help

[Jeroen Vreeken]

On 2004.01.22 21:23:22 +0100 Tom Vavra wrote:
> # /usr/sbin/kissattach /dev/ttyS1 port1 44.1.1.1
> kissattach: Error setting line discipline: TIOCSETD: Invalid argument
> Are you sure you have enabled MKISS support in the kernel
> or, if you made it a module, that the module is loaded?

This kind of sais it all.... You have to load the mkiss module called
'mkiss.o' first.

Jeroen

Re: request for AX25 help

[M Taylor]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:23:22PM -0000, Tom Vavra wrote:
> I'm trying to get AX25 working on a RedHat 7.3 system.  The following
> packages are on the system.
> 
> ax25 is not compiled into the kernel so I insmod   ax25.o and   netrom.o
> 
> I'm only trying to drive a kiss tnc, and provide ax25 and netrom.  When
> trying to run kissattach i get
> 
> # /usr/sbin/kissattach /dev/ttyS1 port1 44.1.1.1
> kissattach: Error setting line discipline: TIOCSETD: Invalid argument
> Are you sure you have enabled MKISS support in the kernel
> or, if you made it a module, that the module is loaded?
> 
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> Are the kernel and packages a good match?

You need the mkiss module loaded as well,
	modprobe mkiss

The mkiss module is not included with Red Hat Linux if I recall correctly,
so you will have to rebuild your kernel. There is a Kernel-HOWTO avalilable
to help guide your through the process if you are not familiar with it.

I will note that Red Hat Linux 7.3 is beyond the "end-of-life" support
from Red Hat Inc., you might want to consider Red Hat Linux 9 or Fedora
core 1 as possible replaces in the near future.

Good luck, and I hope that helps,
-ve3tix