Re: config BPQ Ethernet device

From: Richard Adams (oehhxt.ghdenwmvvx@alchar.org)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 08:47:58 EET

  • Next message: Tomi Manninen OH2BNS: "Re: config BPQ Ethernet device"

    On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Chris Leishman wrote:
    >
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I'm trying to play around with packet radio stuff, but as I have no real
    > hardware yet I figured I'd use the BPQ device to send AX25 over ethernet.
    >
    > However, I'm having trouble getting it up and running. I'm doing the
    > following:
    >
    > xxx:~# modprobe bpqether
    > xxx:~# ifconfig bpq0 hw ax25 DUMMY-01 up
    > xxx:~# ifconfig -a
    > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:00:xx:xx:xx
    > inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    > RX packets:14839 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    > TX packets:8240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
    > Interrupt:57 Base address:0xf000
    >
    > bpq0 Link encap:AMPR AX.25 HWaddr DUMMY-01
    > UP RUNNING MTU:256 Metric:1
    > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    > xxx:~# cat /etc/ax25/axports
    > # /etc/ax25/axports
    > #
    > 1 DUMMY-01 10000000 256 2 BPQ/Linux ethernet
    > xxx:~# axparms -route list
    > axconfig: port 1 not active
    > axparms: no AX.25 port data configured
    > xxx:~#
    >
    >
    > How do I make the port active??

    I belive you need to use 'bpqparms' to set the destination mac address.
    bpqparms -d xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
    I dont know about the SSID you are using, "01" i would try -0 or -1
    Use bpqparms on both machines.

    >
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Chris
    >
    >
    > --
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > Knuth: premature optimisation is the root of all evil.
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > Reply with subject 'request key' for GPG public key. KeyID 0xB4E24219
    >

    ----------------------------------------
    Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="unnamed"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    Content-Description:
    ---------------------------------------- 

    -- 
Regards Richard
Happy New Year
skkgc.vdqdvwuk@mailit.tunk.net
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/

    -
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in
the body of a message to terhi.victor@logonet.com

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Tue Jan 16 2001 - 08:54:45 EET