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].
> 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
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 It is a bit outdated but everything except the kernel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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