From: Jeroen Vreeken (hcu.usnma@raindance.com)
Date: Sun Jan 18 2004 - 19:02:03 EET
On 2004.01.18 17:01:15 +0100 Tomi Manninen wrote:
> 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...
I have made some patches a while ago to fix the scc and mkiss driver in
2.6.0 and 2.6.1. They haven't made it in mainline though.
In 2.6.1 you get another warning about mkiss using cli() I have made a
patch to remove it but have yet to test it.
Jeroen
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