Re: Embedded Linux and Amateur Radio

[Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com>]

On 6/21/05, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:58:01PM -0400, Braddock Gaskill wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:34:45AM -0700, Brett Mueller wrote:
> > > like to build a system with no moving parts, using Linux as the
> > > operating system, with miniPCI 802.11 radio cards, and having serial
> > > ports to support KISS or 6PACK on TNCs.  I'd like the ability to run
> >
> > One of the niftiest ideas I can think of in this realm would be to use
> > a Linksys WRT54GS access point as a Linux Packet device.  It runs
> 
> I think so too. Sometime soon I want to move my APRS gateway (running
> aprsd) onto the Linksys with the TNC connected to a hacked-in serial
> port.
> 
> That may mean recompiling the 54GS kernel to add AX.25.
> Has anyone done this already?
> 


Ahh, now I do not feel so bad, I had this somewhat perverted dream of
doing the same thing... Multidrop kiss would allow you to have more
than one TNC hanging off of the thing... If 6pack for Linux is fixed for
multiple tnc's then it would be even better....


-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."