Linux-Hams archive - November 1996: Re: your mail

Re: your mail

Brian A. Lantz (hsgrl@tds.com)
Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:57:44 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Joerg Reuter wrote:

> I removed the KISS TNC emulation mode from version 3.0 on since I
> see no reason why one should not use the Fine Kernel AX.25 ;-).
> It just complicated the driver and increased its size. But
> I have not forgotten the *NOS and WAMPES users. There is a small
> program called "kissbridge" included in z8530drv-utils-3.0 and
> there is "net2kiss" by Thomas Sailer in the AX.25 utilities. Both
> programs link an AX.25 network device to a pseudo TTY port. Note
> that this version of z8530drv is included in the 2.1.x kernel
> tree and not available for 2.0.x.

Thanks, Joerg, for the clarification! Since I do not use an SCC card, I
do not keep close tabs on that part of the kernel code ;-)

Glad to know that a simple executable and the SCC module is all that's
needed.

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