Hi Peter,
Thanks for replying.
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Peter van der Post wrote:
> > 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.
Was going to do the same - memory not a consideration at present.
>
> 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.
>
Thanks for information, were you using ax25-apps-0.0.4.tar.gz
ax25-tools-0.0.3.tar.gz libax25-0.0.7.tar.gz to do the ax25 stuff ?
Further to the utils I found an rpm on
ftp://ftp.ccac.rwth-aachen.de/pub/jr/ and the readme seems to be
concerning libc6 so that's the one I will be trying first.
Just have to wait for the users to stop using it - or I could just pull
the plug :-)
tia
73
Steve g6dzj/gb7itg
