From: Iain Young (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 23:46:36 EET
Hi Everyone,
First of all, my apologies if this has been asked before, but I
searched the archives for 'bpq' and came back with nothing.
What is the state of bpqether in the stock 2.2 and 2.4 kernels,
specifically under the Sparc architecture ? Is it broken, or is
it supposed to work ? Or does it only work as a module ?
I can compile it in, with no problem, ifconfig bpq0 ... up, no
problems at all, but if I do axparms -route add bpq0 ..., then
it fails as shown:
axconfig: port bpq0 not active
axparms: no AX.25 port data configured
axports contains:
bpq0 G7III-14 10000000 256 2 BPQ/Ethernet Device
Actually, I had to hack the arch/sparc/Config.in file, in order
to get it as a compile time option, but I put that down to a
CVS merge mistake at some point, or does it only work on i386
(Can't understand why, as surely all it does is pass ethernet
frames to the ethernet driver, it shouldn't care what actual
physical device it is talking to surely ?)
It works fine with the KJD patch (and the patched utils etc),
but I don't like the idea of the ipax0 device (I prefer all
my devices to be IP capable, and this is not a reflection
on the patch, it's just a personal preference, 'cause Im
[IP] crazy...)
(And yes, I know once it eventually gets into 2.4.x, Ill be
stuffed unless I maintain my own "un-patch") Stranger things
have been known to happen =)
Best 73s
Iain ("Knocking head against hard linux kernel")
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