Hi, I'm slowly figuring out ax25 and linux, having done neither before. My motivation is trying to build a digipeater/igate on OpenWRT - the hardware is cheap and reliable and runs on a minimal 12V supply, so it's pretty much ideal, once you add a serial port.
I've got the hardware, I've got a kernel with ax25, I've got a KISS TNC, I've got versions of digi_ned and aprsd. The trick is plumbing them together. I don't have a toolchain for creating binaries for the WRT. :-( The hard part is that neither the digi_ned nor aprsd have ax25 port support - they've both been cut down to run on the device. That's OK - I can use kissattach to talk to the TNC, and net2kiss to do the plumbing to make ptys with the packets for both programs. Or so I thought. The problem is the ptys. The OpenWRT uses "Unix98" naming of ptys, where one opens /dev/ptmx to get a pair of file descriptors that are connected. net2kiss believes that ptys are pre-created and that the invoker can grab a pre-named pair and go forward. I've looked around and can't find a net2kiss.c that does Unix98. I don't really know when and why this style of pty came into being... and I'm wondering if there's a common way to tweak the kernel to use the old style? Perhaps the driver is there and I just need to create the ptys? Suggestions and experience welcome. VY 73 de chris K6DBG - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
