Re: AX.25 & drivers in the standard kernel package
I raised this question (If AX.25 is ready to use in Debian 2.1r2) with
Harnish, having read some of his postings.
I have the multi-cd set of Debian 2.1r2. I have tried to install the
pre-rolled Standard Workstation profile with limited success, it asks nearly
endless questions during the install process, few of which I have the
knowledge to answer. I believe I will start over with the 'Minimum'
configuration and then try to add things as I need them. I wanted X because
without it apparently I am limited to SVGA low resolution, where most
anything interesting scrolls off the screen before I can read it, worse than
the old teletype days, at least then the letters were still on the paper.
But I have been unable to get X to go, although I had it working fine about
6 months ago with an earlier realease of Red Hat. Being a glutton for
punishment I scrapped Red Hat and I am now struggling with Debian. I intend
to get X working with Debian some how!
If its true that I will need to recompile the kernal in order to get AX.25
to function, well then I will need to learn how. I realize that there are
documents for everything, however I am interested in ham radio first and
computers are secondary. If I have to switch the order of these for a while
to use Linux for ham radio, well I will have to do it, but I believe it
would discourage most hams. But I am not easily discouraged.
So I will give this a shot and post questions as I go, there will be many I
am sure!
Ron N5IN
Below Bob says that 'real Linuxers compile their own custom kernels '.....
Thats probably true. There are likely good technical reasons to leave out
anything which less than 1% of the users would have any interest in. But if
it takes a 'real Linuxer' to make use of Linux in ham applications there
won't be many of them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
To: <debian-hams@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: AX.25 & drivers in the standard kernel package
: I'm probably well in the minority here, but I'm not a big fan of modules
: and only use them when absolutely necessary.
:
: Besides, real Linuxers compile their own custom kernels (with
: make-kpkg, of course).
:
: Bob
:
: On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:32:22PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
: > Ron N5IN emailed me wondering if Debian 2.2 would have AX.25
: > out of the box. We'll certainly have the latest ax25-tools and ax25-apps
: > thanks to Craig, but AFAIK there's no AX.25 stuff compiled in the
: > standard kernel package from Herbert Xu.
: >
: > Any thoughts on whether this is worth doing? I think it should be
: > straightforward enough to compile all these as modules -- they shouldn't
: > interfere with anything, only consume diskspace if you're not using
them.
: >
: >
: > Hamish vk3sb
: > --
: > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD).
: > CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
: >
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