Linux-Hams archive - November 1997: Re: KISS serial driver option missing?

Re: KISS serial driver option missing?

Terry Dawson (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:09:42 +1100

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Ed Lawson wrote:
>
> I recently went to recompile the kernel for ax25 and found
> that contrary to the HOWTO, RH 4.2 menuconfig has
> no option for a serial device driver for KISS. I was planning
> on getting my feet wet using my existing TNC. In fact it has
> no soundcard options either.
>
> Why is it missing? Is there a patch or something
> to get this loaded into the kernel?

What you are calling the "RH 4.2 menuconfig" is just
a 2.0.30 kernel source package for RedHat. This package does
not include the ax25-modules patch that the HOWTO specifically
refers to.

regards
Terry

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