> Has anyone gone down this route with RedHat 6 and running an scc card.
Is
> the latest one compatible and would I have to recompile it, or use the
> ones that are precomiled and come with the package.
>
> The only scc package that I can find that is at all current is
>
> z8530drv-utils-3.0-1.dl1bke.tar.
I upgraded my 486 from RedHat 5.1 to 6.0 recently. I had been using the
system for a year now and it ran just fine. Hardware is a DRSI PC*PA
card, it has one SCC chip with one on-board 1k2 AFSK modem. I use a HAPN
4k8 modem on the second port.
I tested RedHat 6.0 with the installed kernel first, using the scc
driver as a module (compiled on a second system). It worked, but I had
problems with the ARP protocol (outgoing ARP requests seemed to contain
no IP addresses).
I finally recompiled the kernel without module support, and now it runs
just fine.
I'm not saying not to use modules, but since compiling a new kernel
takes several hours on that machine, I did not bother to test
alternative configurations.
You will need the z8530drv utils to do the initialisation of the scc
driver. The driver source code is in the kernel source tree.
You will then need some applications, to actually make an AX.25
connection. You can use the ax25-utils package or go for X Windows with
LinKT.
I had some problems in getting the ax25-utils to compile properly. I
found a glibc version of the package, but it still needed some editing
to get an error free compile.
Good luck,
Peter
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