Hi Eduard.
> I have trouble setting setting my linux box working with
> ax25. I am using a Motorola tranceiver connected to a modem
> (1200bps) connected to /dev/ttyS1.
When you say "modem", do you mean a telephone modem or something
like the so-called Baycom modem unit?
> I have completed the /etc/ax25/axports file with :
> # name callsign speed paclen window description
> #
> radio YO8RGB-9 1200 250 4 1200bps
The obvious point here is that your PACLEN is way too high for
1200 baud use. From experience, setting that higher than 150 just
results in lots of collisions and retries, and the ideal value is
usually around 135.
Unfortunately, I'm still struggling to get my setup working under
Linux - so far, I've only succeeded under MSDOS - so I can't help
with the rest of it.
> and added the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (I forgot to
> tell that I am running RH-61 on this machine) for boot-time
> startup:
> /usr/sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyS1 radio
> /usr/sbin/kissparms -p radio -f n -l 20 -r 50 -t 10
> /usr/sbin/mheardd -l
> /usr/sbin/beacon -l -t 1 radio "test"
> After issuing /usr/sbin/kissattach .... I get:
> AX.25 port radio bound to device ax0
> axconfig: port radio not active
> kissparms: no AX.25 ports configured
> mheardd: no AX.25 port data configured
> beacon: no AX.25 ports defined
> Hope is OK, but ...... the tranceiver switch to Tx mode and
> locks-up; I have to issue .... to get it into Rx mode. I
> can't explain why is this happening, maybe somebody can
> give me some advices...
> when issueing "ifconfig ax0" I get:
> ax0 Link encap:AMPR AX.25 HWaddr YO8RGB-9
> UP RUNNING MTU:250 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
> and my /etc/conf.modules looks like:
> alias net-pf-3 ax25
> alias net-pf-6 netrom
> alias net-pf-11 rose
> alias tty-ldisc-1 slip
> alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp
> alias tty-ldisc-5 mkiss
> alias bc0 baycom
> alias nr0 netrom
> alias pi0a pi2
> alias pt0a pt
> alias scc0 optoscc
> alias sm0 soundmodem
> alias tunl0 newtunnel
> alias char-major-4 serial
> alias char-major-5 serial
> alias char-major-6 lp
Those all look correct to me.
Best wishes from Riley.
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