On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, richard bown wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Ok. Lets try to be a bit more constructive.
>
> > 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 ??
>
> There are no "ax25-utilities" in the kernel in any version. There is only
> the kernel support for the protocols. With 2.0.35 the kernel ax.25 support
> was updated to a more recent version. That update was previously
> distributed as a patch to the kernel (ax25-module-xx).
>
> Ax25-utils is a completely different thing and you will need to compile
> and install the ax25-utils package no matter what your kernel version is
> (as a alternative to compiling and installing there are RedHat RPM and
> Debian packages for ax25-utils, or so I'm told). Ax25-utils-2.1.42a is the
> correct version for kernel 2.0.3[56].
You can ftp to contrib.redhat.com and in the /libc6/i386/ find the
ax25-util-42a-1-i386.rpm file that will load on either Red Hat 5.1 or 5.2
very well. Of course you should upgrade to kernel 2.0.35 to make it very
simple.
>
> > 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
>
You will find the man pages all set up to read.
> So far you seem to be the first one that hasn't figured out the difference
> of support for the amateur radio protocols in the linux kernel (a.k.a
> kernel-ax.25) and ax25 utilities. Or you are the first to write to this
> list. Or my memory fails.
>
> I think this all is pretty well explained in the AX25-HOWTO. If not, then
> I suppose Terry will need to add more detail in the next version. What I
> would recommend you now is that you read the AX25-HOWTO a couple of times
> with thought. It is a bit outdated but everything except the kernel
> versions and the fact that you now don't have to patch the kernel still
> holds.
>
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