Linux-Hams archive - January 1998: Re: ax25 utils with 2.0.32 kernel

Re: ax25 utils with 2.0.32 kernel

Bob Nielsen (dcxgh@bms.com)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 21:41:43 -0700 (MST)


On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Terry Dawson wrote:

> > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ed Jackson wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all............
> > > What version of ax25-utils, and net-tools should I be using
> > > with a 2.0.32 kernel. The ax25 howto (ver 1.5) talks about 2.0.31,
> > > but no higher.
>
> Ed,
> yes, Bob is correct, you should use ax25-utils-2.1.42a.
>
>
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > I would certainly think 2.1.42a, if you have patched the kernel with
> > module-14e, or 2.0.12c if not. There has been quite a bit of discussion
> > recently about prblems patching 2.0.33 and I downgraded to 2.0.31 with the
> > 14e patch, which works nicely. This hasn't been pinned down yet, but it
> > looks like the patch may need some work for 2.0.33. Nobody has reported
> > problems with 2.0.32, AFAIK.
>
> Ah, I haven't been following the list very closely of late I'm amazingly
> busy at the moment. I'll take a look, I don't think the changes required
> will be very large ones, I'll see if I can get another patch prepared.

No need at this point Terry. As Richard Adams pointed out, only one line
is affected and the .rej can be ignored. It turns out my biggest problems
were hardware-related (signal 11) and after several retries, I was able to
get a successful compilation.

Bob

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