Hi Gerd (and the rest of the world :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here are the results.
>
> We tested that new software on two different computers, one using SuSE Linux
> 6.3 (K6-300, 32 MB RAM, 1 GB harddrive) the other one using Caldera OpenLinux
> 2.3. (Celeron 400, 64 MB RAM, 20 GB harddrive).
I use the new stuff on a 486/66, 16mb ram, disless boot via nfs an suse 6.2.
> Nevertheless, call seems to have some problems with the new AX.25 stack.
> Every time I want to connect to someone using a command like call radio
> MYCALL the call program comes up with
>
> Trying...
> connect: No route to host
>
> Here I have no idea how this can be fixed, too.
there are some changes in the routing behavior... if you add a "axparms -route
add <if> <call>", it
works... but here the problem appears only with "call", linkt for example have no
problem.
> After some fiddling around, we got Linkt 6.2 to work.
> Since we had no other hardware available we wanted to set up SoundModem and
> BayCom.
>
> After configuring the CM8330 onboard sound chips with the isapnptools and the
> kernel pnp support compiled in we found that the SoundModem driver is able to
> transmit.
> But setting an option for either serial or parallel or MIDI connected PTT
> circuit failed. It seems that sethdlc is broken, too.
> Also, no soundcard (we tested with an AWE64, some MAD-16 cards and an older
> ESS 688 AudioDrive) was able to decode incoming signals. Unfortunately,
> smdiag is not included in the AX.25 software packages anymore, and older
> versions do not work. Hopefully, there is some other software available to
> simply show if there is a reasonable signal available or not. I had no time
> yet to check this.
>
> The same, regrettably, applies to the BayCom driver. Neither baycom_ser_hdx
> nor baycom_ser_fdx worked. The first test using the debug feature of sethdlc
> in a way like
>
> sethdlc -i -d bcsf0
>
> failed on both computers.
> I am not sure if this is a fault of sethdlc or the driver.
>
> So, the night finished rather frustrating for us - we got tired without
> having any success.
>
> Cheers, 73
>
I use a a creative virbra 16pnp card. After initializing with isapnp and
loading/unloading
the soundkard module, the soundmodem-software works without any bigger problems.
But when initialising the card with sethdlc you must set two filter curves, one
for rx, one
for tx.
At the moment i have not much time, but the baycom eppflex and picpar modems as
well
as kiss and soundmodem works here fine and without any greater problems :)
For the de-ax25-howto i just over writing some extensions, but this is not
finished at
the moment :-)
cu/73 thomas/dc2rpt
