Linux-Hams archive - February 1997: Re: Problems with ax25-utils

Re: Problems with ax25-utils

Terry Dawson (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Sat, 01 Feb 1997 19:28:03 +1100


Walter R. Rice wrote:
>
> When I try to axattach my TNC I get the following error message:
>
> ERROR 'sl0' busy and not MOD_IN_USE.
> axattach: SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument
>
> Any suggestions? I have a Kantronic KPC3 on com1, and the command

Walter,
You haven't told us what version of kenrel or ax25-utils you are
using, but I'm going to assume 2.0.28/ax25-utils-2.0.12c

You have probably not compiled your kernel with SLIP support,
in the 2.0.* kernels this is required to allow KISS

Terry