Hallo,
I have released a new version of the 6pack driver, which runs on 2.2.x
kernels. This version removes the problem that spattach runs into an
uninterruptible sleep after a bare AX.25 connection has been opened and
spattach is killed. However, it actually suffers from the same problem
as the mkiss driver, i.e. the kernel panics after a IP-over-AX.25
connection is shut down by ifconfig sp0 down or killall spattach.
The code with interfaces the kernel has now been taken from the
actual mkiss driver and so should meet all requirements of 2.2.x
kernels. As the mkiss code supports multiple devices connected over
the same serial interface it should now alos be easier to extend
the 6pack driver to support multiple TNCs in a ring.
This version of the driver is not yet part of the kernel sources.
It can be obtained from the following URLs:
ftp://heisenberg.ccac.rwth-aachen.de/pub/ajk/6pack-0.4.0.tgz
ftp://db0bm.automation.fh-aachen.de/pub/icoming/dg3kq/6pack-0.4.0.tgz
To install, unpack the tar archive in the /usr/src directory, provided
that your linux sources are in /usr/src/linux, and compile your kernel
or your modules as usual.
Further documentation can be found in
linux/Documenation/networking/6pack.txt.
73 de Andreas
