From: Ray Wells <vk2tv@exemail.com.au>
To: "Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <lists@w1nr.net>
Cc: James French <w8iss@wideopenwest.com>, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AX25 write up anywhere?
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 21:49:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BDC1541.7070607@exemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BDC08E9.4080106@w1nr.net>
I've been actively using ax25 (and compiling kernels for it) since about
1992/3, with kernel 2.0.29.
With the greatest respect to Jeff Trantor and the previous author of the
ax25 howto, Terry Dawson (a fellow vk2), I've always found the official
document to be of limited value. The principal problem is currency of
the document in a changing environment.
The URL below points to a 2001 document. ax25 has come a long way since
then, and so has Linux. 2.6 kernels are a far cry from 2.0 and 2.2 kernels.
Whilst some information is valid, some is not, leaving a newcomer
effectively without help.
The document by Bernard F6BVP, although primarily aimed at fpac,
contains currently maintained ax25 information, contributed by current
active users of ax25 with 2.6 kernels.
Ray vk2tv
Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
> Have you looked at the standard HOWTO for AX.25?
> http://www.w1nr.net/howto/html/AX25-HOWTO/index.html
>
> Mike, W1NR
>
>
> James French wrote:
>
>> I have been considering setting up a AX25 only Linux box here for sometime
>> now.
>>
>> My problem here is that I only know enough to get my Linux boxes running and
>> keep them running satisfactory for what I have done so far over the past eight
>> years.
>>
>> Is there a current write up that I can use as a guide to help walk me through
>> setting up and configuring AX25 other than the man pages? I plan on using
>> openMEPIS for the OS which is a Debian derivative unless someone suggests
>> another Debian source other than Ubuntu.
>>
>> James W8ISS
>>
>>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-01 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-29 18:38 AX25 write up anywhere? James French
2010-05-01 5:14 ` Tom Hayward
2010-05-01 5:21 ` f5pbl
2010-05-01 5:26 ` Ray Wells
2010-05-01 10:56 ` Mike McCarthy, W1NR
2010-05-01 11:49 ` Ray Wells [this message]
2010-05-03 5:29 ` Terry Dawson
2010-05-03 7:12 ` Ray Wells
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