2.2.10 is full of bugs and security holes. They have new
releases for other reasons than new peripherals being
supported. There was a large memory leak in tcp
that was only fixed by 2.2.13!
Bob
At 07:33 PM 01/08/2000 Saturday , you wrote:
>Thanks Costas,
>The problem it one of out of date documentation with the applications.
>I have grabbed the required trees and am in the process of recompiling
>my kernel with ax25 support. I am using kernel 2.2.10
>
>John VK2GJB
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Costas Krallis
>Sent: Sunday, 9 January 2000 11:16
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: john Buxton
>Subject: Re: AX25 and Redhat 6.1
>
>
>At 09:48 09/01/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>
>> a very "enlightening" reply, however it failed to answer my question.
>>
>>
>> I had in fact read the message I quoted, I am not in the habit of
>> quoting unread messages.
>> It says
>> "the version of ax25utils is too old for RH6.x"
>>
>> it then continues with
>> "for 2.2 kernels, you should download ax25-apps, ax25-tools libax25
>from
>> ftp://ftp.hes.iki.fi/pub/ham/linux/ax25/ and install them as
>instructed"
>>
>> wonderful, however this if still not an answer to my question.
>
>Well, the answer is that for RedHat 6.1 you don't need ax25utils
>anymore. All the programs you need for AX.25 operations are in
>the ax25-tools, ax25-apps and libax25 packages.
>
>Actually you don't even have to compile them, they are available
>at the RedHat ftp server ftp://ftp.redhat.com in RPM form in the
>powertools collection. If you have the deluxe version of RedHat 6.1,
>they are on one of the CDs
>
>Best 73 and good luck
>
>Costas
>
>
>
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