Re: I have fogotten

2000-03-26 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Gerard. >> The most damage you can do when running anything as a >> non-privledged user is to that user's own files. > Yes, but ... > I remember a silly script I tried. It was a recursive > script that was creating a directory, then moved itself in > that directory, then run again ...

Re: JNOS script:ok!

2000-03-25 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Marco. > Testing the script suggested from Riley Williams and Shawn > T. Rutledge, I have been able to use a panel icon to launch > my JNOS 1.11e. Good. > I did the following: > ---script text--- > #!/bin/bash > cd /jnos > exec xterm -e ./jnos -g2 -fnos

Re: I have fogotten

2000-03-24 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Lamar. > Some of us actually do have to run windows for some reason > or another, no flames, I have three running slackware > (again, no flames) and two running NT. I run one box under Win95 a\nd another under Win98 just so that I can guarantee to my customers that the Linux based gateways

Re: traceroute warning

2000-03-23 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Charles. > pins 1&2 are a pair > pins 3&6 are a pair That's correct. What I suspect has happenned is that one end is wired with 3&6 as a pair, the other with 3&4 as a pair. That just doesn't work, and leads to the one-way effect described... > short cables wired 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5,..

Re: traceroute warning

2000-03-23 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jim. > Hi folks. Here's how rj45 cables should be made if you are > using a hub. Looking at the bottom of the plug with the end > facing away, the colors should be as follows, from LEFT to > RIGHT. Note that the first color is the main color, the > second is the tracer or "stripe". First

Re: traceroute warning

2000-03-23 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Paul. >> Is the network connection using BNC cable or twisted pair >> cable? If BNC cable, you can stop here as the rest of this >> doesn't apply, but please let me know so I know to ignore >> this as well. > I'm using twisted pair. >> Assuming the lead uses twisted pair cable, is it g

Re: traceroute warning

2000-03-22 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Paul. > I am trying to establish an axip link between two TNOS > boxes. I am having problems with the routing. The boxes are > linked with ethernet cards which only work properly in one > direction PC2>PC1. > traceroute run on PC2 to eth0 on PC1 > traceroute 192.168.0.1 > traceroute:

Re: Firewall problem (fwd)

2000-03-19 Thread Riley Williams
Hi William, all. > (Thanks for forwarding this, Riley. Please CC: me if you'd > like my input as I'm not subscribed to linux-hams.) No problem... >> I've a problem to set up a firewall with SuSE 6.2. > (I don't use SuSE, so I can't comment on their script.) I can't either as I use Eridani

Re: Firewall problem (fwd)

2000-03-19 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robert, William. >> Another question: >> Is it possible to apply rules to all ham interfaces with >> FW_WORLD_DEV="scc0,scc1,scc2" or "scc0 scc1..."? What is >> the correct syntax for multiple interfaces? I couldn't find >> it in the SuSE documentation. There was only a hint that >> mult

Re: Any Plans for Data Radios?

2000-03-19 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Bent. >> Does anyone know of any plans for data only radios (xcvrs)? > In the OZ7SAT PacSAt group we have a side project named > Acousto which is exactly this. Here is a translation of the > first paragraph of the Danish description: > Q> "To develop a dedicated data radio which is spec

Re: Reconnection problem

2000-03-19 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robert. > My ISP kills my ISDN connection every 8 hours and so I have > to reconnect (of course I get a new dynamic IP, but doesn't > matter) My ISP disconnects after 60 minutes, and I'm set up to dial straight back in. However, I'm not on an ISDN connection, so YMMV. > Does someone know

Re: R: Script for JNOS

2000-03-19 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Marco. > Hi Riley (have you an HAM RADIO callsign??) I have indeed - indeed, I have two. See my signature below... >> I've just checked my archive and this is the first from you >> that I've seen. Are you sure you used the right address? >> >> The following script will do that for you:

Re: tranceiver locks-up in Tx mode. why?

2000-03-18 Thread Riley Williams
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

Re: Any Plans For Data Radio's?

2000-03-18 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Rob. >>> Sorry if this is slightly off topic? I am new to the list >>> but have been a linux fan and ham for a long time. I have >>> seen several emails on the list about plans for TNC's / >>> packet modems, etc. >>> Does anyone know of any plans for data only radios (xcvrs)? >> Depend

Re: Script for JNOS

2000-03-18 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Marco. > Hello,this is the third message I try to deliver,but until > now nobody answer to me. I've just checked my archive and this is the first from you I've seen. Are you sure you used the right address? > I could suppose that it is also because my question it is > not totally "Linux-

Re: Any Plans For Data Radio's?

2000-03-15 Thread Riley Williams
Hi David. > Sorry if this is slightly off topic? I am new to the list > but have been a linux fan and ham for a long time. I have > seen several emails on the list about plans for TNC's / > packet modems, etc. > Does anyone know of any plans for data only radios (xcvrs)? Depends what you

Re: History of Unix/Linux

2000-03-06 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Arno. > I've been asked by our local ham radio association to give > a presentation about Linux and it's use for packet radio. It's probably far too late for your presentation, but for future reference, here's some URL's to possibly relevant resources: 1. The Linux HomePage... ht

Re: radio.linux.org.au

2000-03-06 Thread Riley Williams
Hi there. >> Can any kind reader tell me if the little goldmine that is >> the radio.linux.org.au box also has an ampr.org 44 network >> address... I can't help with that query... >> ...and if so, is it accessible via the encap wormholes ? ...but that has me curious: What exactly is "the e

Re: Interesting High Speed Engineering Project from WSU

1999-11-11 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Bob. >> ...and I believe Phil G8BPQ has written a Win9x based version >> of his code as well. > G8BPQ is John, not Phil. I make that mistake regularly, unfortunately. G8BPQ is indeed John. > I haven't communicated with him in many years, but heard that > he had done some recent work al

Re: Interesting High Speed Engineering Project from WSU

1999-11-09 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robin. > Avoid 220MHz as this is not available round the world. There is > probably more digital radio work going on in Europe than the USA > so make sure its possible to 'translate' to those most likely to > be interested!! 430Mhz is better for internationalism even with > the shorter ra

Re: Interesting High Speed Engineering Project from WSU

1999-11-09 Thread Riley Williams
Hi David. > So my understanding of AX.25 is as follows: The Linux Kernel > gets a network packet all ready to go, but instead of launching > it through it's network device (eth0 for example), using IP > Masquerading and hard routing commands, I can get it to route > the information through t

Re: FCC's ULS ... OFFTOPIC

1999-08-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Nate. >> Sorry, this is off topic, but does anyone know what law gives the FCC >> permission to require an individual to divulge their SSN (TIN)? > Per the latest CQ magazine I received yesterday in the > Washington Readout column by W5YI this authority is mandated by > the Debt Collecti

Re: ANNOUNCE: dgipip - dynamic IPIP gateway client/server for Linux

1999-08-09 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Terry. I see from your second message that you accidentally posted this to the wrong mailing list, but it hasn't appeared in linux-hams yet, so I've responded to the one that has appeared and forwarded my reply to both lists. Future comments only expected in linux-hams though... > As a resul

Re: CW keyer kernel module

1999-08-08 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Ivo. > Hi Riley, thank you and others for so fast feedback. It shoud > keep me going. >> Personally, I'd like to see the following options from such >> a driver: >> 1. With or without sidetone. In other words, the user can >>choose whether they can hear the morse through the PC's

Re: radio.linux.org.au

1999-08-08 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Terry. >> One obvious reason would be to make it more attractive to people >> using it, as many people give up on a site that regularly times >> out on them. I've so far tried three times, and each time, you >> time out on me!!! Since I don't get to set the timeout - that's >> built into

Re: CW keyer kernel module

1999-08-08 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Ivo, Karl. >> If anyone is interested I have written kernel module to be used >> as CW keyer. It takes text input and generates CW sound using PC >> speaker and also keyes your transmitter using standard COM1 or >> COM2 devices. >> I would be grateful for any positive or negative feedbac

Re: radio.linux.org.au

1999-08-07 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Terry. >> It looks like that the default php3 page queries to the mySQL >> engine for New Software... (checking the date i guess!) every >> time the page is asked... is that right? > yes, that is correct. >> It will be a good idea to have the first page as a static one >> and updated w

Re: RED LINUX V.7 and the AX25-Utilities

1999-08-06 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Nicolay. To help you out, I have enclosed this message as translated into German by BabelFish. > I try a long time to set up the AX.25-support on the RED LINUX > V.7 System, but without any solution. So I think, or better I > hope someone can help me in this Case of Work. > All what I ne

Re: WOW

1999-08-05 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Richard. >>> Cant beleive it! Not one answer to my request for help with my >>> Routing problem. hmmm >> Could that be because your request didn't make it to the list? I've >> just checked, and this is the first message I've seen from you in >> this list since 15th July, when I last

Re: WOW

1999-08-05 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Angelo. > That's strange. I have a copy of it from the server! It arrived here 20 minutes after your missive commenting on the number and quality of the replies... Best wishes from Riley. +--+ | There is something frustrat

Re: WOW

1999-08-04 Thread Riley Williams
Hi there. > Gee! > Cant beleive it! Not one answer to my request for help with my > Routing problem. hmmm Could that be because your request didn't make it to the list? I've just checked, and this is the first message I've seen from you in this list since 15th July, when I last flushed t

Re: Linux boot messages

1999-08-04 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Gerd. >> Thank you sooo much, Gerd! Re-copying System.map to the '/' >> directory took care of both warning messages. You were right on >> the money about the kernel version recompile and not updating >> that file! > So my memory served me right :) > A long time ago when I started fidd

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-08-03 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Tomi. > I tried to keep my hands out of this but... :-) >>> Just put GB50BO in the callsign field... >> Thereby contravening the regulations in just about EVERY country >> I've ever operated in! Certainly, doing that is against the >> British regulations, the US regulations, the Canadi

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-08-03 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robin. Please advise how one would put the callsign GB50BOB into a packet radio transceiver then? >>> I do not like to cite my cites but: >> just using DL1NC and (just in case) sending a beacon every 10 >> minutes containing my complete callsign and QTH. If anybod

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-08-03 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Andrew. >>> Just put GB50BO in the callsign field... >> Thereby contravening the regulations in just about EVERY country >> I've ever operated in! Certainly, doing that is against the >> British regulations, the US regulations, the Canadian >> regulations, the French regulations...should

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-08-03 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Walter. >> Please advise how one would put the callsign GB50BOB into a >> packet radio transceiver then? > I do not like to cite my cites but: just using DL1NC and (just in case) sending a beacon every 10 minutes containing my complete callsign and QTH. If anybody w

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-08-02 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Walter. >>> To be honest, the AX.25 specification needs SERIOUS revision >>> in this area, to allow for callsigns of any length or pattern >>> to be used. > No. It is IMO not necessary to put your whole callsign into the > address fields. Please advise how one would put the callsign GB5

Re: Cept calls

1999-08-01 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robert. >> Ah! That could cause a problem. However, there is one >> possibility that could deal with that for you, as a side-effect >> of the British licensing system: Remember that ANY of the >> following would be valid as your German callsign: >> DC/G8JVM<= If you leave fr

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-08-01 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Dirk. >> In fact, the HDLC standard on which it is based already defines >> how such a system is to be handled, and precicely what should >> occur under all possible scenarios, so there's very little to be >> agreed on other than precicely what is meant by "Extended mode" >> as opposed to

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-08-01 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Geoff. >> Also note that the following is a perfectly valid callsign >> which also doesn't fit in the AX.25 spcification: >> PA/GM7GOD/MM >> That is the callsign that *I* would have to use if operating >> from a ship sailing in tidal waters claimed by the Netherlands. > Are you ce

Re: Cept calls

1999-07-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Richard. > Thanks to all you made constructive comments and also included > forms for the application a German reciprocal. Nodz. > Callsign fields of greater than 6 chars need to be implemented , > albeit the ax25 protocol still states 6, but this has been > modified before. so a preced

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-07-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Thomas. >> ie. bit 0 is set to say this is the end of the address field - >> by this means, AX25 (and X25 on which it is based) already >> support variable length address fields. >> That most implementations don't support it is another matter >> entirely!!! > Well, this is not exactly

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-07-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robin. >> To be honest, the AX.25 specification needs SERIOUS revision in >> this area, to allow for callsigns of any length or pattern to be >> used. However, it needs to be done in a manner compatible with >> the current standard. >> My suggestion would be to make it dynamic to suit th

Re: Using 2.2.? kernels

1999-07-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Karl. >>> ...under the 2.0.38 kernel. >> When was 2.0.38 released? I can't find it anywhere... > Sorry, That is a typo. I am using 2.0.36 now. No problem, just that you were the fourth person in as many messages to refer to 2.0.38 and I was beginning to get worried as a result... Best w

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-07-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robert. >> Also note that the following is a perfectly valid callsign which >> also doesn't fit in the AX.25 spcification: >> PA/GM7GOD/MM >> That is the callsign that *I* would have to use if operating from >> a ship sailing in tidal waters claimed by the Netherlands. > AFAIK, th

Re: Using 2.2.? kernels

1999-07-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Karl. > ...under the 2.0.38 kernel. When was 2.0.38 released? I can't find it anywhere... Best wishes from Riley. +--+ | There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux | | development, ie., the qualit

Re: CEPT callsigns

1999-07-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Richard. > Hi all, as I will be working in Germany for the next year, no > that doesn't mean you wont hear from me !, Chuckle... > I've come across a problem common to linux node, jnos, tnos and > fbb and probally a few more as well. All of the above check for > valid callsigns , ie 6 c

Re: What about 6Pack?

1999-07-28 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Bob. > Well CONFIG_6PACK is an option in the 2.2.x kernels. > Taken from /usr/src/linux-2.2.10/Documentation/networking/6pack.txt >> --- >> 3. Where can I get the latest version of 6pack for LinuX? >> >> At the moment, the 6pack

Re: What about 6Pack?

1999-07-27 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Gerd. > yesterday, an OM asked me about further information about 6Pack > in general and on Linux in particular. > What have I to say? Nothing to be found except the 6Pack 0.2.0 > driver on ftp.hes.iki.fi and ftp.funet.fi . But ooh - its dated > May 15, 1997 :(, designed for a "2.0.29 wi

Re: Souped up PMS

1999-07-23 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Pablo. >> Are you sure of that? My understanding was that it ran quite >> happily in conjunction with ax25d so I have to state that I'm >> surprised to hear that it doesn't... > In fact, I assumed it didn't, as it was dubbed 'xfbb daemon' and > I supposed it runs like a daemon. I'll chec

Re: Souped up PMS

1999-07-23 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Pablo. > Does anybody know of some mini-BBS system that will run from > ax25d and will be able to take messages for me (as the PMS) and > will allow me to send messages to the users? And maybe download > files... > I think that FBB is a bit of overkill, and it doesn't run from > ax25d.

Re: ? AX.25 utilities for 'production' kernel ?

1999-07-19 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Charles. > ax25-utils-2.1.42a.tar.gz AX.25 utilities for Linux 2.1.42 and up >- Compiles without modification on libc5 >only. > Is linux kernel 2.2.6 'up' from linux 2.1.42 ? Yes - but I believe you want ax2

Re: tcm3105_help

1999-07-19 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Mario. > well.. a friend help me to get some progress... > we compile the AX.25 support and the Baycom support into the > kernel... and also download the AX.25 tools and made a baycom > device... now when I run 'ifconfig' appears this: > bcsf0 Link encap:AMPR AX.25 HWaddr CX2CAK >

Re: AX25 update ?.

1999-07-19 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Tomi. >>> I have had an accident with my linuxdirectory where I save >>> LINHAM mails in. >>> Could anybody help me with the websites where it's possible >>> to get the new updates and what are they called ?? >> If it helps, the last 1,000-odd mails in Linux-Hams are archived >> (in pi

Re: AX25 update ?.

1999-07-18 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Erik. > I have had an accident with my linuxdirectory where I save > LINHAM mails in. > Could anybody help me with the websites where it's possible to > get the new updates and what are they called ?? If it helps, the last 1,000-odd mails in Linux-Hams are archived (in pine folder format

Re: German AX.25-HOWTO updated

1999-07-12 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Gerd. > recently, I updated the german version of the AX.25-HOWTO to > include information about the recent versions of AX.25 software > and Linux kernels. I also updated the SCC section a little bit > (hope it is right since I have no chance to try it out myself - > no SCC card available

Re: Another mtrack release

1999-07-06 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Doug. > Whats the url for the mtrack program? I want to find out more > about it and also download it. Here's one of Jonathan's recent emails on the subject... Q> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 6 23:31:41 1999 Q> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:57:26 +0200 (CEST) Q> From: Jonathan Naylor <[E

Re: Red Hat 6 and AX25

1999-07-04 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Karl. >> Just alias in your /etc/conf.modules like below: >> alias net-pf-3 ax25 >> alias net-pf-17 af_packet >> alias tty-ldisc-5 mkiss >> alias tty-ldisc-7 6pack >> alias ax0 mkiss >> alias sp0 6pack >> alias char-major-4 serial >> alias char-major-5 serial >> and it resolve your

Re: Another mtrack release

1999-07-04 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jonathan. > This is the final beta prior to the final mtrack-0.2 release. Did you ever get the email I sent you re the program's user interface in 0.2.2 ??? Best wishes from Riley. +--+ | There is something frustrating abo

Re: USB TNC

1999-06-14 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Ivo. > Dont loose time in academic debate. Start doing something > concrete. If you want to know everybodys oppinion lets make > televoting. I will put an web page where you can vote for USB or > Ethernet or something else, for the start,ok? If you're doing that, make sure there's the abi

Re: USB TNC

1999-06-10 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Hamish. >> Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong. Anyway, Ethernet could >> be a solution, too but it would not be easy to implement either. >> And: How do you make a usual TNC2, TNC3, Kamtronics, PK232 etc. >> Ethernet capable? For USB, there are ready-to use chips, I've >> been told

Re: TNC with Ehernet

1999-06-10 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jim. >> A TNC with Ethernet have existed for some time. >> Try to look at this address: >> http://home.t-online.de/home/hrldbgt/tnc4edesc.html > My apologies however, I only speak English and a little Spanish. > Is there another section in English? Point your browser at http://www.Babe

Re: Dynamic addr for a axip or ipip tunnel?

1999-06-10 Thread Riley Williams
Hi John. > I am sure that I am not the only guy who dials into an ISP and > receives an dynamic IP address for the outside interface with > ipfwadm and running Amateur tcpip applications. Aside from hand > editing source and destination address's each time the system > kicks off, is there a

Re: Linux/Ham software archive ?

1999-06-10 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Terry. > Keep your eyes on http://radio.linux.org.au/ Not much of interest on there at the moment... Best wishes from Riley. +--+ | There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux | | development, ie.,

Re: Zipdrive

1999-06-07 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Michael. > Anyone using an Iomega Zip drive with Linux slackware? I'm using one with Linux, RedHat in my case, but the rules should be the same. > If so how do you set it up to work? First, which drive is it: 1. Internel ATAPI-IDE drive. This one gets set up the same way as any oth

Re: New SCC card design

1999-06-05 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jose. >>> I've been looking into designing a new SCC card for packet and >>> making the PCB masks freely available on the 'net. I've >>> currently got a USCC and a S5SCC card and I've had a good look >>> at how each of them work. I feel that a PCI based card is beyond >>> my capabilities

Re: New SCC card design

1999-06-05 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Klaus. >> PPS can anyone point me to an online manual for the 85C230? > SCC, USC, IUSC - data sheets, user manuals - It's all on > www.zilog.com. Anybody care to translate that site into something readable with lynx in either English or American, as what appears is best described as writt

Re: New SCC card design

1999-06-03 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jason. > I've been looking into designing a new SCC card for packet and > making the PCB masks freely available on the 'net. I've > currently got a USCC and a S5SCC card and I've had a good look > at how each of them work. I feel that a PCI based card is beyond > my capabilities so I'm ta

Re: 75 baud, Baudot, 1.5 Stop Bits

1999-06-02 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Bill. >> How can I get a 75 Baud, Baudot, 1.5 stop Bits directly >> on my serial port ? I would like to interface an old >> teleprinter with my PC. > YES and NO > 75/1.5 should be no problem None at all, as far as I can see. > Current loop conversion will require a mod to the output

Re: 75 baud, Baudot, 1.5 Stop Bits

1999-05-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi there. > How can I get a 75 Baud, Baudot, 1.5 stop Bits directly on my > serial port ? I would like to interface an old teleprinter with > my PC. The 75 Baud 1.5 stop bits is the easy part of the equation, since most PC serial ports can be set to those parameters, and those that can't can

Re: mtrack 0.2 beta 2 released

1999-05-30 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jonathan. >> Probably a better alternative would be to have a database file >> with the latitude/longitude of major cities worldwide, similar >> to the one supplied with SatTrack, and to plot those on the map. > ... err, what do you think the file locfile is all about ? Sorry, I overlook

Re: mtrack 0.2 beta 2 released

1999-05-29 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jonathan. > One thing I may look into is adding spots to denote the DX > locations that I have in the list on the map. It would certainly > look pretty :-) Probably a better alternative would be to have a database file with the latitude/longitude of major cities worldwide, similar to the o

Re: mtrack 0.2 beta 2 released

1999-05-28 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jonathan. >> - you can resize the window although it does not resize the >> map, it's a bit confusing. > Not so easy to do. I may look into it, but I am not so sure its > very easy. That was one of the reasons for including multiple > maps, to remove the need to zoom the map in any par

Re: mtrack 0.2 update

1999-05-15 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Hamish. > I'm a bit confused by the time display in the graphical version; > it's currently 00:35 or so, and my UTC offset is set to 10 (we > are +1000 here). The time displayed is 10:35. If I change the > offset to -10, I get 14:35. Those times are both correct... Current time =

Re: periodic disconnects

1999-05-09 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Joerg. >> Q> [NON-Text Body part not included] >> Not sure what happenned, but your message was listed as an >> attachment to a binary message, hence the above. > It is just a multipart/signed message conforming to RFC 2015 and > Pine doesn't seem to be able to understand a message/rfc8

Re: Nordlink and xfbb mailing lists

1999-05-08 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Gerhard. > Last week I tried 2 times to subscribe to the nordlink mailing > lists and the xfbb mailing list. From the xfbb mailing list I > got no response on my subscription and the Nordlink guys seem to > have mail server trouble... > Is anybody on those lists and knows what's going on

Re: periodic disconnects

1999-05-08 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Joerg. On Fri, 7 May 1999, Joerg Reuter wrote: Q> [NON-Text Body part not included] Not sure what happenned, but your message was listed as an attachment to a binary message, hence the above. Here's your comments extracted (and reformatted) after saving them to disk, just in case there were

Re: cyrix cpu

1999-05-07 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robby. > I'm using cyrix 200 MHz kernel 2.36 redhat, running kiss, > baycom, and soundmodem . All are operational I was using an AMD K6-2/350 processor, but I discovered a slight problem - the said processor is specified as using a core voltage of 2.2V and I was driving it as 3.2V !!! As a

Re: cyrix cpu

1999-05-05 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Dennis. > I'm using the ax25 protocol under RedHat linux with kernel > 2.2.3. This works just fine. The only problem is that any > attempt to compile a kernel fails. I've tried several times > to do this, but it never works. > After trying to compile a kernel on my own pc, i've moved to

Re: Nordlink and xfbb mailing lists

1999-05-04 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Gerhard. >> It definately exists - as a result of posting to the owner of >> the list, I received a "You have subscribed" message from the >> list yesterday, and between then and now have received nearly >> 200 messages from that list, some going back to last October... >> Obviously some

Re: Sendmail rules for ax25 mail

1999-05-02 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Bob. > Ya need a recieve_mail script. It can be as simple as this... > #!/bin/sh > while read stuff > do echo $stuff >>/somedirectory/$1 > done The above won't quite do what you wanted, since it will replace each white space sequence on any line with a single space. Try it with the fo

Re: Nordlink and xfbb mailing lists

1999-05-02 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Gerhard. >>> Is anybody on those lists and knows what's going on ? > About the xfbb mailing list I got two mails from Brett Mueller > and Riley Williams (these mails didn't show up on the list yet). > Brett had the same results as me and Riley was subscribed

Re: Year-2000-Problem With FBB?

1999-05-01 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Tomi. >>> Are you sure that it is 190 ? Not 100 ? The latter would be easy >>> to explain with "struct tm". It has a member tm_year that is >>> often mistakingly taken as representing the year and decade as a >>> two digit number when it actually is years since 1900 (see man >>> mktime).

Re: Year-2000-Problem With FBB?

1999-04-29 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Tomi. >> At login, FBB showed a date of 01.01.190 (yes, that's no typo!). >> Although we were estonished we stopped further investigating this >> problem since we didn't want to corrupt our mail database. > Are you sure that it is 190 ? Not 100 ? The latter would be easy > to explain wit

Re: QTH Calculations

1999-04-29 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jan. >>> I've got another question, does anyone know how to calculate >>> the QTH-Locator? >> Sure, but you'll need to know your Latitude and Longitude first >> though, to the requisite resolution... > Are these 'WGS84' Lat/Lon? Or does it use another datum? I'm not sure what you mean

Re: Compression in packet radio

1999-04-29 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Julian. > I am trying to explain again the idea in other words. Sorry for > the bad english ... > What I say is to create a driver/module server for compression, > you put in an AX-25 listening socket. You mean something like the BSD-depress module that's used with PPP ? Best wishes fro

Re: QTH Calculations - Correction

1999-04-28 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Dennis. In my last email, I said... > 2. The North Pole is defined as being that point located at Latitude > 90 North and, by the definition of Latitude and Longitude, always > occupies all Longitude values. In addition, the band labelled as > R in part 1 strictly does not in

QTH Calculations

1999-04-28 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Dennis. > I've got another question, does anyone know how to calculate the > QTH-Locator? Sure, but you'll need to know your Latitude and Longitude first though, to the requisite resolution... 1. Determine which Longitude band you fall in, from the following list, noting that the meas

Re: Need timeouts for TCP/IP??

1999-04-24 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jorge. > Why does the modem takes so long to transmit when I make a Ping, > Telnet, Ftp, etc? It doesn`t tramsmit right after issuing the > command. Possably your system is trying to do a DNS lookup to resolve the hostname of the target address, is there any differe

Re: Need timeouts for TCP/IP??

1999-04-23 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jorge. >>> Why does the modem takes so long to transmit when I make a Ping, >>> Telnet, Ftp, etc? It doesn`t tramsmit right after issuing the >>> command. > Possably your system is trying to do a DNS lookup to resolve the > hostname of the target address, is there any difference in speed

Re: sattrack

1999-04-22 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Dirk. >>> lintrack ??? >> Except that the name is too Linux specific. The program is >> portable to other Unixes and as such does not need to be tied >> to our platform. A more generic name is in order I think. > how about being really cheeky and calling it 'tracksat'? 8-)

Re: sattrack

1999-04-22 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jonathan. >>> Opinions please. >> lintrack ??? > Except that the name is too Linux specific. The program is > portable to other Unixes and as such does not need to be tied to > our platform. A more generic name is in order I think. True - how about SatLoc (Satellite Locator) then? >>

Re: sattrack

1999-04-22 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jonathan. > This has been pointed out to me on e-mail yesterday. I'll be > calling it mtrack again, even though the reason for the m (for > Motif) is no longer meaningful. Unless ... I call it gtrack (GPL > track). Or JSNtrack, or G4KLX-track :-) > Opinions please. lintrack ??? Best wi

RE: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-21 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jon. >> What really worries me is that a decent book of 100-200 pages on >> using Linux for ham radio would tend to be too short, and a >> proper treatment would take at least six months to write -- by >> which time it would be largely out of date. > First, please understand that I don't

RE: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-17 Thread Riley Williams
Hi there. >> It really doesn't matter the significance. I've already >> registered the "Radio Amateurs Guide" (RAG) as a project with >> the LDP coordinator. I've done nothing with it for a couple of >> years because really, it wasn't clear to me that there was a >> significant enough audien

Re: Linux and ZIP drives?

1999-04-14 Thread Riley Williams
Hi all. >> ...recognize that ZIP drive and allow me to use it? Will it be >> treated as a floppy drive, or as a hard drive, or what? > Check out the "Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO" by Kyle Dansie, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd forgotten about that... > It should be in /usr/doc/ in the mini-howto sectio

Re: Linux and ZIP drives?

1999-04-14 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Gary. > In an effort to improve the general operation of my Linux box, I > will soon upgrade my Linux 486-DX133 computer to an AMD-K6-233 > computer with 96mb of memory and a 6.4 gig hard drive, etc... > The AMD has an Iomega 100mb ZIP drive installed. Presumably that's an internal ZIP dr

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-13 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Jon. > We've been the benificiaries of using Linux for our Web server > for more than 3 years. Used to do all our email on Linux, too, > before the IS folks got involved and went to NT :-( > So I think it's only fair if in return I offer to host a Linux > ham-radio section on www.arrl.or

Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

1999-04-12 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Terry. > The HAM-HOWTO was initially designed to promote awareness of > Linux as a computing platform ideal for amateur radio software > and development. The LDP HOWTO format was adopted because it was > widely known and there were no other mechanisms to fill the role > of collating lists

Re: uClinux

1999-04-09 Thread Riley Williams
Hi all. >> Why would this be a 'cheap' router? > Why wouldn't it be? Put it in context, it's cheap or expensive depending on what one is used to, so neither term can readily be applied on a global scale like the Internet... >> I quote from the web site: "We are working on a small module (a

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