Re: Some packet questions...

"Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <lists@xxxxxxxx> · Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:50:31 -0500

Nothing has really changed in many years, so the documentation hasn't had 

any reason to be revised.

I found my local IP address coordinator very helpful in getting IP over 

AX.25 running.

There have been major changes to the Kernel drivers for many of the AX.25 

protocols having to do with SMP.  With dual core processor based systems 

common, this was really needed.

Do you know what Linux distribution you plan to use?  I prefer openSUSE 

(www.opensuse.org) because the AX.25 kernel modules are built in by default. 

No Kernel rebuilding required.  The Ham Radio packages are also available at 

ftp.w1nr.net.  If you go that route, use 10.1 "remastered".  The kernel that 

shipped with 10.0 was broken as the AX.25 SMP modifications were not quite 

fully debugged.  The management interface in SUSE can't be beat.

Mike, W1NR

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USN" <teners@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To: <linux-hams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:56 PM
Subject: Some packet questions...

To whom it shall concern:

   It has been an exceeding long time since I have been active in the what

was "a new mode" back in the day, Packet Radio! Since the late 90s it 

seems

a lot has changed, and the word on the street is that packet has all but 

in

most cases evaporated from the once large network it was (at least from 

the

few people I spoke to at a Hamfest recently in the East Coast).

   Now, personally, I do not know if the evaporation of packet has, indeed

really become occurrent, but I am curious to find out if there will be 

much

of an activity level in most major metropolitan areas that I should I 

think

about rebuilding a packet station, and how well it works these days.

   I plan to use a W32A that I have (for the moment) as the radio with the

olde 5w/35w amplifier I have from (gasp) RF Concepts/Kantronics, as well 

as

an IC-91AD and/or D700A.

   There is an AX.25 How-To which is very olde that is instructive to the
concerns of asserting AX.25 protocol via the Linux Kernel. I am interested
to configure a Linux box for the purposes of having an AX.25 router, has a
copy of this document been updated anytime lately?

   I was reading in Page 83 of the November 2006 CQ Magazine that someone

used a metalized windshield sunshade, and since I was in the kitchen 

making

some pasta at the time, how workable would it be to put a mag-mount on top
of a large pasta pot as a ground plane, any comments on that? The antenna
under consideration for the "Pasta Pot Ground Plane" would be an SG7900A.

Stuart, N3GWG (Amateur Extra)

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Very Respectfully,

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