Re: baycom sethdlc No such device (19)
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:45:49PM +0100, Sebastian Muszynski wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2003 14:41, Tim Neu wrote:
> > I thought the call command couldn't directly address TNCs which are real
> > network devices without a utility such as net2kiss - to generate a KISS
> > stream which the kernel ax25 can talk to. (and also so that call,
> > ax25d,listen, etc all work).
> >
> > Am I mistaken?
>
> Yes! Totally!
>
> 'call' uses the kernel ax25 to adress the hardware (Jaye has a modem!).
> ax25 hardware can be handled like an network interface (e.g. for ipax).
> 'net2kiss' has a very different kind of task. It can convert a network
> ax25 driver to a kiss stream. (e.g. to bind modems which can't talk
> kiss to kiss-only applications)
I thought call, listen, etc were KISS-only applications.
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