[xfbb] ax25 och FC4 (kernel 2.6)

[Josh Housey]

Hi all,

I am running ax25 utils/FBB using KUbuntu and have
absolutely no problems with it. All of the "pty/tty"
are found (saves a lot of headache), and to make it
even more simplier, the "deb" files are available from
the respositories that make it straightforward to edit
for my use and then execute.

I tried Fedora Core 2 back a while ago, and I never
really got it working with ax25 utils/FBB and ran into
the exact problem, "how to create the pty/tty pairs"
that ax25 utils/FBB use. You can create them manually
(even doing that, I had further complications rise
after that), but after restart, they will be deleted
by udev (it is in all releases after Core 1) by
rebooting. 

I think you could create a rule to have them created
upon boot time, but I am not too sure of that. For
some reason, SUSE, K/Ubuntu, Mandrake, and other
distributions already have all the pairs created
automatically and are ready to use. So, it is another
possibly of the solution being in the kernel where
recompiling .
 
The simple solution is to try another distribution
(that is what I did), or try to find the solution in
the kernel and/or try creating udev rules for it.

73
Josh, AB9FT

--- Thomas Nilsson <Thomas.Nilsson at bahnhof.se> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> just one thought:
> 
> In kernel 2.6.8 and later, at least in Debian, the
> devices are nowadays 
> handled by udev. I have had lots of problems in
> general with this. Most 
> of my problems went away when I started to write
> udev rules myself.
> 
> (I do however still have problems with one of my PCs
> were the hotplug 
> events are not genereted when I switch to a 2.6.8
> kernel.)
> 
> Maybe the problems reported are related to this?
> Have someone looked 
> into this? Is udev used in FC4?
> 
> BTW: Does anyone know if  ax25 modules support
> sysdev?
> 
> BR
> 
> /Thomas
> 
> Håkan wrote:
> 
> > May be I´m in the wrong mailinglist. But I have no
> succee in other 
> > list´s I have tryed. Ok. to my problem.
> >
> > I have run ax25 in many configs for same yeares
> now. I installed FC4 
> > with linux kernel 2.6 just for uppgrade my server
> and ax25 node. I 
> > have compiled a starting kernel with ax25 support.
> But i kan not do 
> > this line  for ax25 via internet:-
> >
> > /usr/sbin/kissattach /dev/ptyq0 udp 44.140.212.8
> >
> > I have this errorline:-
> >
> > - kissattach: Cannot find serial device
> /dev/ptyq0, no such file or 
> > directory.
> >
> > I tyed to "MAKEDEV pty*" and get this error:-
> >
> > - don't know how to make device "pty*"
> >
> > This have not been a problem with RH7.3 and kernel
> 2.4
> >
> > Is there may be same of you noing how to handel
> this in FC4?
> > All help is wanted.
> > Please help me.
> >
> > Vy 73 de sm6tpn
> >
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> 
> -- 
> 
> Thomas "Thuben" Nilsson
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