On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Dale L. Puckett wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm a Linux newbie and beginning to really like it. Everything has been
> going reasonably well as I have managed to recompile the 2.0.35 kernel and
> get the ax25 utils on the air without a lot of trouble.
>
> I am in the process of setting up a switch very similar to that at
> www.febo.com/packetnet/mvtma.html. I also used the fbb-config.html
> doucment at that site. I also relied heavily on notes on this list from
> Karl. In fact, I pasted in his port.sys file and carefully edited it to
> match my switch.
>
> Here is what I have run into to far. Any help would be appreciated. If I
> start the daemon version of fbb, it starts off and then goes into a side
> scrolling loop with the message Creating file Statis.dat (Y/N)? No number
> of Y's ever stops it.
Something in FBB is not set up properly. Re-check port.sys and
init.srv for problems. I hope your bbs is loaded on /usr/local/fbb/ as the
short instructions suggested.
>
> If I start the program in an XTerm window I get a "Unkown value 127"
> error.
>
> The Terminal window comes up, but I get a could not connect to
> k0hyd.ampr.org:3286 error.
>
> Incidentally, I can telnet to k0hyd.ampr.org OK. But, if I telnet to that
> port, I get a connection refused.
>
> Likewise, if I connect to a neighbor node and come back in to ICTBBS which
> is the netbbs port, I get a busy.
>
> I can however come back into my node, KSICT, and doing most anything I
> want.
>
> I presently have #ICTSW (netrom) on k0hyd-14, the two ports on k0hyd-13
> and k0hyd-12. I have KSICT on k0hyd-1 (netnod), ICTBBS on k0hyd-3 and hope
> to have ICTDX (netdx) running the DXNET software on k0hyd-4.
>
> The first fbb problem I ran into was the xffb.sh script was calling xfbb
> if it was running in an XTerm window. I changed that line to run xffbX and
> this got me to my present position. BTW, xfbb.sh runs the same way if I
> rename the xffbX file to xffb.
>
What version of FBB are you using? Mine is 7.0.e and it works
well. But getting port.sys right is a hard thing.
> I hope I've given enough details to help nail down a solution. All help
> will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks es 73
> de Dale
>
> Dale L. Puckett � k0hyd.ampr.org [44.122.0.4]
> Goddard, KS 67052
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] � http://www.fn.net/~k0hyd
>
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -
