From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Nielsen Subject: Re: Embedded Linux and Amateur Radio Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:04:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20050626030404.GA15311@oz.net> References: <42B84FB5.8090907@wa7v.com> <42BB49C4.10004@wa7v.com> <20050625193602.GA23792@linux-mips.org> <20050626021245.GC5086@cloud.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050626021245.GC5086@cloud.net.au> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux-Hams On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:12:45PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:36:02PM +0200, Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote: > > In the end I however consider usermode stack integrated with a whole set > > of applications and server daemons such as Xnet a design mistake for > > operating systems such as Linux that are pretending to have full blown and > > universal network stacks and I'm working - time permitting - on getting > > the kernel stack to work just as well. Nontrivial, challenging - and > > hopefully at some point - also rewarding ... > > In the case of the WRT54GS, I'm concerned that it will be running linux > 2.4 yet AX.25 (from what I've read) was never too good on 2.4. > > I want to run an APRS gateway on it and aprsd can work with just a > serial port to the TNC, but I prefer the AX.25 method. (And I might want > to switch away from AX.25 at some point). > > I don't know if the WRT54GS could be upgraded to 2.6; I think it has > some proprietary (binary-only) drivers for the Broadcom wifi chipset. > I recall that early 2.4 (<2.4.18?) kernels had problems with AX.25, but I have been running a DX Spider node with 2.4 kernels (currently 2.4.26) for quite a while and have not experienced any AX.25 difficulties. Bob, N7XY