Re: sound card modem on a laptop?

From: Tomi Manninen (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Sun Jan 18 2004 - 18:01:15 EET

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    On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 22:42, James Washer wrote:

    > I'm just about to begin playing with AX.25/Linux.. I'd like to get a
    > soundcard modem running on a laptop (IBM Thinkpad), for packet and APRS use.
    >
    > I'm fairly knowledgable with linux, but not with soundcards and AX.25..
    >
    > Is anyone else doing this successfully?
    >
    > Should I start with a 2.6 kernel, or is that too bleeding edge for now?

    A comment about 2.6 kernels. Even though I haven't had a chance to try
    it myself yet (lazy me), I have been told that the MKISS driver in the
    2.6 kernel doesn't compile.

    The kernel mode soundmodem has been removed in 2.6 so you have
    to use the user mode soundmodem [1], and it's better anyway. However,
    the user mode soundmodem needs the MKISS driver to talk to the kernel.
    So if the driver really does not compile, you can't use 2.6...

    /Tomi

    [1] http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem/ 

    -- 
Tomi Manninen / OH2BNS / KP20ME04

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