Hi!
I think that are quite simple questions for a well experienced
linux-ham who is using a SCC card.
I've got SuSE Linux 6.0 running kernel 2.0.36.
glibc based
My first question is: WHAT TO DO TO INSTALL THE CARD?
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I found the following files:
z8530drv-2_4c_dl1bke_tar.gz
z8530drv-utils-3_0_tar.gz
z8530drv-utils-3_0-1_dl1bke_tar.gz
Which is the right one?
I've also compiled the kernel and said to compile
[M] Z8530 SCC KISS emulation driver for AX.25
as a module.
In the ax25-howto it is said to enable this at kernel compilation-time.
done
At the SCC device installation they say:
'cd z8530drv, make clean, make dep
make module # If you want to build the driver as a module
make for_kernel # If you want the driver to built into your kernel
make install'
Isn't the module already bulit???? Why again build a module?
If I do 'modprobe scc' it works, so the module already exists!!
I only have to do 'make install', isn't it?
The only thing I really need is gencfg, sccinit and sccstat I think. Not a
module.
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another more difficult question: HOW TO COMPILE THE UTILS?
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I've got the same errors like the one I got when I tried to compile
the ax25-utils some time ago. Furtunately I've got the file
ax25-utils-2.1.42a.glibc.tar.gz
With this one it worked.
But now I've got the same problems to compile. Where to find
z8530drv.....glibc.tar.gz??
Any other possibilities to get them compiled?
I've heard that it will work by doing 'gcc -V 2.7.2.3' because
'gcc -V egcs-2.91.60' is the new default in Suse6.
How to tell the makefile to call the gcc this way?
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last question: WHY KISS EMULATION?
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Is there any even more complicated way? What about installing
the SCC card in an MS-DOS system (done in 2 minutes without
glibc/libc5, driver version and old-howto troubles) and then try with some
virtual drivers that use the card in the other system? :)
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tnx
Robert
