I would like to report tests of ax.25 drivers and applications under LinuxPPC. As I can't connect to ML archive this morning, I haven't checked if there'are articles related to LinuxPPC. Sorry if this is frequently reported thing. PC: PowerMac 7600/200 + Sonnet G3 300/150/1MB. Linux distribution: LinuxPPC 1999 Q3 Kernel: 2.2.6 came with LinuxPPC 1999 Q3 Glibc: glibc-2.1.2-4a.ppc.rpm in the update directory of the distribution. (1) Rebuilding Kernel I have little experiences in rpm world, so I don't know if I did the right thing or not. Kernel 2.2.6 source was installed by rpm into /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/. I omitted useless options for my Mac (IDE, USB...), and enabled ax.25, netrom, serial kiss options (not as modules but kernel builtin). Kernel with ax.25 was successfully built. (2) libax25-0.0.7, ax25-apps-0.0.4, ax25-tools-0.0.5 I issued, ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc to install bins and confs in more proper place than simply issueing ./configure. No problems at all with libax25 and ax25-apps. Since hdlcutil in ax25-tools depends on hardware, I removed hdlcutil from SUBDIRS in Makefile. Kissattach.c complains N_AX25 is not difined, it is defined in /usr/src/linux/include/asm-ppc/termios.h though. This may not be recommended way but I simply add #ifndef N_AX25 #define N_AX25 5 #endif in kissattach.c I successfully run or attach kissattach, kissnetd, ax25d, mheardd, listen and call. (3) DX Spider DX Spider is pure perl suites. It must run if perl and CPAN are properly installed. And so does it! Console connection by client.pl and radio connection via ax25d were tested and succeeded. Version I tested was 1.33, the latest. (4) F6FBB Xfbbd 7.01d was compiled successfully, but have not run in my Mac. There should be configuration problems. I am running xfbbd 7.00g26 in my x86 box, but have not succeeded to run 7.01d. I should try 7.01d in the x86 box first, then go to Mac. Best regards, Ichiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] JE1SGH
