On 19 Feb 99 at 11:36, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Ronnie Hale wrote:
>
> > I agree with Jose. This is a "gotcha" for most every newcomer to linux
> > ax25, and totally unnecessary. Someone dropped the ball here, and it's time
> > to fix it. If ax25 doesn't work without MKISS, why is MKISS an option?
>
> For the very same reason we have all drivers as options. ax25 works just
> fine without mkiss, if you happen to run it over, say, the 6pack or BPQ
> ethernet drivers. Some people might not need KISS and it would be foolish
> to force them load it in their valuable RAM. It's a hardware driver, just
> like the hundreds of ethernet, SCSI, mouse drivers.
>
> In the 2.2 configuration all the amateur radio code is selectable in one
> single "Amateur Radio support" section so it should be fairly easy to find
> the right stuff. Thanks to whoever got the idea of putting them there.
>
> - Hessu
Agreed !. I realized that AFTER I wrote the above. But MANY seem to
be using KISS and this has kept on happening.
Sometimes we can forget that others may do otherwise...this happened
to me this time. Nevertheless, for the newcomers using the KISS
boxes, it shouldn't be that easy to go wrong....
73, Jose.
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