Linux-Hams archive - October 1999: Re: Baycom and Linux?

Re: Baycom and Linux?

Gerd (iud.wcpzh@rmbb.net)
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 23:55:49 +0200


Hello Kai, hello all,

[/dev/bc*]
> >
> > They exist but they will not be used. The kernel will not recognise them.
> > SuSE shouldn't ship them any more. None of my Debian systems have
> > ever had them.
>
> We are shipping the old kernel 2.0.36 as fallback so the devices could be
> useful.

No, I think together with very old versions of the AX25-HOWTO they
will confuse the newcomers since they are really not needed
anymore.
I still remember how we first started (and gave up soon) fiddling
around with Packet Radio under Linux. There were a lot of different
patches and versions of the ax25-utilities and also, of the HOWTO
documents with sometimes misunderstandable contents.

Since kernel 2.0.35 at least, all the AX.25 drivers are providing
network devices as interfaces. (Read the AX.25-HOWTO, even the
original version 1.7 is still up to date in that point.)

So IMHO you can safely drop all the AX.25 related devices under
/dev .

Cheers, 73

Gerd