RE: Offer to work on AX25 and HAM HOWTOs

From: Riley Williams (pujbwe.kyzx@itcltd.hu)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 21:11:05 EEST

  • Next message: Hamish Moffatt: "Re: Offer to work on AX25 and HAM HOWTOs"

    Hi Peter.

    > Are not the HOWTO's the first port of call for people trying to
    > get things going? If I had a dixuella-plugin-ABCXYZ the first
    > place I would look is the "dixuella-HOWTO"

    I'm in full agreement with that...

    > Any newcomer reading the AX25-HOWTO will not succeed in getting
    > linux AX25 working.

    All too true - I've never yet managed to get AX.25 working on Linux,
    and found the AX25-HOWTO something I couldn't understand - and I'm not
    only an experienced packet radioer (who ran my own BBS for several
    years under MS-DOS), but also a computer professional as well!!!

    > I have offered to help with documentation and I have been
    > ignored.

    I have to admit that I've not previously seen your offer of help on
    this list, but as far as I'm concerned, if you can get AX.25 working
    on my system by telling me what to do, I'll write a new HOWTO based on
    your instructions.

    In case you wish to take this offer up, my system is as follows:

       1. Intel P60 processor with 16M of RAM.
            800M hard drive on /dev/hda
            6.3G hard drive on /dev/hde

       2. I can reinstall Red Hat Linux on this system without problem.
            Any of Red Hat 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 or 7.1 are available.

       3. Network interface eth0 is configured as 192.168.252.44 with
            the localnet DNS translating that to AX25.UFP.CX.

       4. I have a PK232/MBX plugged into /dev/ttyS1 with my mouse
            plugged into /dev/ttyS0.

       5. I also have a BayCom USCC card which I can plug in. However,
            this card may not work.

    Your comments would be much appreciated.

    Best wishes from Riley.

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