Hey Richard,
I was in the same boat not long ago. There is nothing in the DOCS that
says you don't have to patch 2.0.35 to use ax25-utils-2.1.42a, but you
don't. I sent an email to Terry Dawson, VK2KTJ who maintains the utils and
he told me this. In any case, all you have to do is compile ax25 stuff into
the kernel, and follow the directions in the ax25-utils-2.1.42a INSTALL and
skip the part on patching the kernel. Everything else works fine. If you
have an older version of ax25-utils already installed in your Linux
distribution, the you may have a man page problem. I my case, the man pages
in /usr/local/man/1 preceded the news ones and I had to delete the old ones
top get the new ones to come up without specifying a section.
Hope this helps!
73's
Jim
KE4IHI
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of richard bown
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 6:14 AM
> To: Tomi Manninen
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: sorry folks the saga continues
>
>
> sorry if not knowing causes you offence!
> If your going to take the high and mighty attitude, why do
> you subscribe
> to this group. I thought was for mutual help.
> considering the fact I'm using kernel 2.0.35 which has the ax utils
> already built in how am I to install something which is
> already there ??
> and if i'm having problems finding the man pages , I'm not going to be
> the only one. the ax25 HOWTo covers the patch for the previous kernel,
> but there is no mention of the later stable kernels
> What you fail to remember is that probally years ago you were in the
> same position, and questions you asked were probally regarded
> by others
> with more experience as rubbish. We All learn by experience, and I was
> under the impression that the purpose of amatuer radio was a learning
> exercise.
>
> If the man pages are there, I've obviously missed howto install them,
> and as the ax 25 utils are already bolted on to 2.0.35 how are they to
> be built ??
>
>
> In message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tomi Manninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Bown, Richard wrote:
> >
> >> Please no more "read the man pages" , the're not on either
> machine at
> >> this end, and a web search for "man netrom" and a few
> other things on
> >> alta vista failed to produce anything as well
> >
> >_INSTALL_ the man pages then! They _ALL_ come with the
> ax25-utils. If "man
> >netrom" doesn't work for you then you have not installed your
> >ax25-utilities properly. No more questions to the list
> please until you
> >have fixed that!
> >
>
> --
> richard bown
>
